Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!texsun!texbell!uudell!natinst!rpp386!woody From: woody@rpp386.cactus.org (Woodrow Baker) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Compiled PostScript Summary: rocks Message-ID: <17597@rpp386.cactus.org> Date: 8 Jan 90 13:08:02 GMT References: <1666@intercon.com> <37662@apple.Apple.COM> Organization: River Parishes Programming, Plano, TX Lines: 18 In article <37662@apple.Apple.COM>, kchen@Apple.COM (Kok Chen) writes: > woody@rpp386.cactus.org (Woodrow Baker) writes: > > > And I challenge you to pinpoint *ANY* major deficiency of a using big > piece of rock for general purpose hammering. > Just thought I'd let you know that I am a flint knapper. I use ONLY rocks and deer antlers to make stone tools. Anything much harder than a Quartz cobble does not work. The surface has no give, on say a steel hammer, and this it causes multiple hinge fractures, and uncontrolled flaking. True, sometimes the rock breaks, but then so does ps. Memory management stinks in postscript, and the fact that you can't decouple multiply copies of strings easily are the only 2 minor drawbacks to it that I can find. Cheers Woody