Hello! Right you are John. I even believe I've got the article from Byte Magazine describing it that way preserved someplace as a cutting. I even remember studying the way it worked on another machine that I supported. Now I just work with ideas for Postscript.
Which happens to be a full language despite being a page description language. -- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The Force will be with you. Always." Obi-Wan Kenobi > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > McKown, John > Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 8:47 AM > To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Create PDFs > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > > Behalf Of Evans, Kevin R > > Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 5:53 AM > > To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU > > Subject: Re: Create PDFs > > > > > > I remember EEs at a prior company using Forth years ago. They used to > > "extend" the language set by "adding" their own instructions. > > Then they > > couldn't remember "how" their own instruction worked (these were EEs > > doing this stuff not software guys...../me waits for the > > verbal abuse to > > come in), so rewrote it for other code later on. Seemed very powerful > > but didn't see much use (at least at that company). I'm not > > surprised it > > didn't really go anywhere. > > > > Not go anywhere? It was not designed as a general purpose language. > IIRC, the creator created it to control telescopes. I think it has a > larger audience in the embedded or process control world. I've used it, > just for learning purposes, and found it very interesting. I even > created a forth-like intepreter that ran on MVS TSO. > > Do a Google search on "forth" and you'll get a lot of hits. > > -- > John McKown > Senior Systems Programmer > HealthMarkets > Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage > Administrative Services Group > Information Technology > > The information contained in this e-mail message may be privileged > and/or confidential. It is for intended addressee(s) only. If you are > not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, > reproduction, distribution or other use of this communication is > strictly prohibited and could, in certain circumstances, be a criminal > offense. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the > sender by reply and delete this message without copying or disclosing > it. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
