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Richard "mtfnpy" Harman | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @d86237d2 my boss from around 15 years ago when I worked at PBS told me stories of how he used to write PostScript by hand, and even authored the PostScript used to draw the famous PBS logo that would get printed for labeling the spine of beta tapes for broadcast.
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Dave Polaschek | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @bc1a1c09 Yeah. I had a printer that I could put into debug mode for figuring out PostScript things or just talk directly to the interpreter when I needed to do math or verify some code. It’s a handy language, and I worked on four different interpreters at various points in my career. Ah well.