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From: munck@chance.uucp (Robert Munck)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: PostScript Language
Message-ID: <99158@linus.UUCP>
Date: 27 Feb 90 17:39:42 GMT
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In article <9457@imagen.UUCP> ib@apolling (Ivan N. Bach) writes:
>Let us assume that there are 1,000,000 people in the world who use 
>PostScript, and that each person on average wastes 1MB of disk 
>storage and 1 hour of time each year because of inefficient encoding.
>The total waste would be huge year after year.  I think that the
>actual numbers are much greater, and growing each year.

Wow!  Suppose there were 10,000,000, and they each waste 20MB and 40 hours!
Or even 1,000,000,000 and each wastes 2,000MB and 9,000 hours a year!
That would be even huger.

> Not to mention the Kanji version of PostScript.

Yeah!  Not to mention it!
    
>...  Such a user interface would be much
>more useful for learning PostScript than the current interfaces
>which scroll the statements off the top of the screen, and force
>you to reenter all statements if you make a slightest mistake. 

Or how about this crummy TTY that you have to use to do PostScript,
where the paper keeps getting tangled out the back and the ribbon runs
out of ink?  That was a really stupid way for Adobe to design PostScript.
I've had to type this note in from the beginning over a hundred and
fifty times because I keep making slight mistakes.  Boo!
                                -- Bob Munck
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