Author: the pterodactyl Date: To: dng Subject: Re: [DNG] filosofies behind programming languages
On Mon, Nov 04, 2024 at 02:26:06AM +0100, karl@??? wrote: > iam@???:
> > FORTH think like the computer
>
> If so, what about PostScript and HP/rpn ?
>
> I consider PostScript a lovely language to produce printed outputs.
> Unfortunately print drivers abuses it and makes it more or less
> unreadable.
I don't know HP/rpn but I imagine that its very much like FORTH, which
is thinking like the CPU to build the Tower of Babylon (having WORD
definition, which HP/rpn may not).
The only PostScript I've seen (destined for Apple LaserWriters) looks
like it was written by a giant on a 8,192 column terminal and then loaded
into Vim by a mere mortal. I concur with the abuse, but have not
discovered its beauty for myself.
As for assembler, one doesn't think like the computer--one *is* the
computer, guts and glory.