Forth: The Hacker’s Language (2017)

Re:Forth: The Hacker’s Language (2017) by AdieuToLogic on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @03:57PM (#20870529)

>> PostScript, which was once widely used

> in academia. Not outside.

NeXTSTEP utilized "Display PostScript"[0] for both printing and display. Apple's Cocoa can trace direct ancestry to frameworks originating in NeXTSTEP[1]. I am pretty sure this included use of PostScript in the display/printing frameworks as well, but do not have references to support that memory.

So, while '.ps' files are not often seen in the wild, as you say, a strong case can be made that PostScript was once (if not currently) widely used.

0 - https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/learning-cocoa-with/059...

1 - https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/12/the-legacy-of-next-l...

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Re:Forth: The Hacker’s Language (2017) by WalterGR on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @11:53AM (#20878396)

NeXTSTEP

I would argue that’s not widely used.

Apple's Cocoa can trace direct ancestry to frameworks originating in NeXTSTEP

Not sure ancestry counts.

printing

Ah, fair point, thanks. I had forgotten about that.

My original claim is incorrect.

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