On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 12:11:11AM +0100, Jack Campin wrote: | >(I have been tempted to translate abc[m]2ps to perl, just for the | >yuks, and for extra portability. Then it wouldn't have to be | >compiled. But I bet I'd get flamed because perl doesn't come | >pre-installed on all possible computer systems. ;-) | | Wouldn't the most portable language for it be PostScript itself? I once found a web server written in Postscript. It was started mainly as an academic challenge and a bet. Since postcript doesn't have socket or file access a C wrapper is used to implement HTTP and pass the data bewteen ghostscript (the interpreter) and the socket. Personally Python is my favorite language :-). -D To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
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