Re: Solutions and Discussion for Perl Quiz of the Week #17 (Expert Edition)

Roger Burton West wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 10:28:43PM -0400, Mark Jason Dominus wrote:
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> >  Over the past four years I've averaged about one PostScript project
> >  per year.  Each project took me far less time than I expected it
> >  would, considering that I was working in a totally unfamiliar
> >  language.  Each project was a huge success, yielding a large
> >  benefit in relation to the amount of time I had to put in.
> This has been my experience too. I started to use it because I needed
> hardcopy output of a precise size, and kept using it because it was fun.
> It's probably the language I use second most often these days.
Hi everyone, my first post to this list. Waiting for a quiz I can 
actually do to come up.
I did some PostScript as part of a document-handling module at 
University (along with troff and LaTeX and various bits of XML) and 
absolutely loved it. There's just something warm and fluffy about 
stack-based languages, but the concept of a programming language which 
exists entirely to draw things on bits of paper (or on screens of 
course) just makes it even better. If only people had tested their code 
better before they sent it to the printers... the problem with having 
native PostScript printers in the department was that when people were 
doing their PostScript coursework they kept getting into infinite loops...
Unfortunately my job is based around network software so I don't get to 
play with PostScript at the moment. I should write an app that needs to 
print things.
Still, learning it's to be highly recommended - a nice change from the 
normal run of programming languages.