Re:Esoteric programming paradigms
by afdsadf on Monday May 01, 2017 @11:18AM
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Shame not to see factor in the concatenative list, it addresses some of the pain points there with locals
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Postscript would also have been a fine addition and has its own methods of dealing with locals. https://www.adobe.com/products/postscript/pdfs/PLRM.pdf [PDF]
Re:Esoteric programming paradigms
by DonHopkins on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @07:38AM
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What a sad world we live in when Adobe publishes a paper about PostScript in PDF (which is just PostScript without the programming language).
To help offset the irony and celebrate Turing completeness, here is a PostScript interpreter implemented in PostScript, and an explanation of why.
http://www.donhopkins.com/home/archive/cyber/litecyber/ps.ps...
http://www.donhopkins.com/home/archive/cyber/litecyber/ps.ps...