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actionfromafarlast Thursday at 9:35 PM4 repliesview on HN

Postscript is pretty neat IMHO and it’s Turing complete. I really appreciated my raytraced page finally coming out of that poor HP laser after an hour or so.


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aidenn0last Thursday at 9:39 PM

I once sent a Sierpinski's Triangle postscript program to a shared printer. It took 90 minutes, and pissed off everybody else trying to print.

hinkleylast Thursday at 9:43 PM

One of the very first SVG documents I encountered was a port of the PS Tiger to SVG. It loaded a lot faster than the PostScript Tiger.

anthklast Thursday at 10:41 PM

PostScript can emulate the ZMachine (Zork text adventures and all of infocom) with "zmachine.ps". Look it up at DDG/GG.

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bigfatkittenlast Thursday at 10:16 PM

Sounds almost like a fun crypto mining opportunity.