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Re:PostScript 1.0 – A Code Study by kencausey on Sunday October 06, 2024 @12:28PM (#41758226)
Thanks, but I saw that much, I should have been clearer. I'm hoping for something on the scale of a survey if not a paper.

Honestly, my first curiosity regards whether Chuck Moore and Forth get any mention or whether this is a true parallel development, possibly necessitated by the hardware at hand. My perception, based on zero evidence, was that Forth had some influence on the design of Postscript.

Re:PostScript 1.0 – A Code Study by tln on Tuesday October 08, 2024 @02:08PM (#41780093)
Apparently not. From "The Origins of PostScript" mentioned by GP:

> The architecture suggested by John Gaffney was to be based on a fictitious stack machine (at that time we had no knowledge of a similar approach taken by the Forth language).

That is the only mention of "Forth".