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From: amanda@intercon.com (Amanda Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: PostScript Language
Message-ID: <1990Feb26.171333.3377@intercon.com>
Date: 26 Feb 90 17:13:33 GMT
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Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation, Sterling, VA
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In article <147@heaven.woodside.ca.us> glenn@heaven.UUCP (Glenn Reid) writes:
>No, I think PostScript succeeded mainly because it is ASCII.

I'd even go one step farther--I think PostScript succeeded mainly
because it's *source code*.  An ASCII format that isn't human readable
isn't really much better than a binary format.  Putting a real live
interpreter inside the printer was a stroke of genius.

-- 
Amanda Walker
InterCon Systems Corporation
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