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From: rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: PostScript -- Stop Bashing Adobe
Summary: substance???
Message-ID: <1990Feb27.045623.20591@ico.isc.com>
Date: 27 Feb 90 04:56:23 GMT
References: <132223@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <1032@abvax.UUCP>
Organization: Interactive Systems Corporation, Boulder, CO
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jaz@abvax.UUCP (Jack A. Zucker) writes about the request to stop the flame
wars:

> Your article reeks of America... Love it or leave it.

Look, this isn't alt.flame.  Some of us read this group to exchange ideas
about PostScript, not to watch all the wannabes preen their egos and whine
about what is, in the final analysis, the fact that Adobe created
PostScript and they didn't.

If there's any of the "Love it or leave it" philosophy here, it's in the
anti-Adobe attitude that seems to say that Adobe is evil because they're
successful, and that anyone who isn't flaming Adobe must be a simpering
sycophant.  Anyone who dares to be *happy* about PostScript, or who finds
it *incredibly useful*, is somehow on the defensive lately.

No, the attitude of the folks who side with Adobe and who want to talk
about using PostScript instead of flaming it is not "Love it or leave it."
If you want to state it in belligerent form, it's "Put up or shut up!"
I'm tired of having the newsgroup overrun by the whining and the flaming.
Sensible criticism would be useful, but the sort of criticism we've seen in
the newsgroup in the past few months shows *no* understanding of language
design, engineering tradeoffs, logical structure, consistency, or human
engineering (to name a few) - all concepts which Adobe *did* consider.
Nor have I seen anyone show even a plausible fragment of a replacement or
competitor for PostScript.  It's *just* noise, and it's rude to keep
dumping nontechnical crap into a (formerly) technical newsgroup.
-- 
Dick Dunn     rcd@ico.isc.com    uucp: {ncar,nbires}!ico!rcd     (303)449-2870
   ...Don't lend your hand to raise no flag atop no ship of fools.