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 In another life, this would’ve greatly disappointed me, but John Warnock is dead, and so is PostScript, I guess. https://eclecticlight.co/2023/09/25/postscripts-sudden-death-in-sonoma/

If I were still working, this probably would’ve meant a surge in business, since I’ve been speaking PS for nearly 30 years, and had handy bits of code to do things like convert Type 1 fonts to and from TrueType and such that would be handy for those dependent on PostScript, but at this point, the signs have been pretty clear for a decade. Ah well. 
 @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. 
 @d86237d2 how did you and I never talk about PostScript together? I didn’t realize or remember it was a thing for you.