OpenLookCDROM

Final resting place for an archive of the historic artifact "OPEN LOOK and XView CD-ROM"

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Final resting place for an archive of the historic artifact "OPEN LOOK and XView CD-ROM"

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That's interesting! I love Forth, but I love PostScript even more, because it's so much like Lisp. What is it about PostScript that you dislike, that doesn't bother you about…

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2017	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2018	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2019	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2020	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2	2
2021	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2022	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1

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DonHopkins·Dec 15, 2020

Leigh Klotz has written more PostScript than Jamie too, while working at Xerox! But "KLOTZ IS A LOGO PRIMITIVE [BEEP BEEP BEEP]". He wrote a 6502 assembler in Logo! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13524588 Leigh Klotz's comment on the regex article: >OK, I think I’ve written more PostScript by hand than Jamie, so I assume he thinks I’m not reading this. Back in the old days, I designed a system that used incredible amounts of PostScript. One thing that made it easier for us was a C-like syntax to PS compiler, done by a fellow at the Turning Institute. We licensed it and used it heavily, and I extended it a bit to be able to handle uneven stack-armed IF, and added varieties of inheritance. The project was called PdB and eventually it folded, and the author left and went to First Person Software, where he wrote a very similar language

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syntax for something called Oak, and it compiled to bytecodes instead of PostScript. Oak got renamed Java. >So there. >And yes, we did have two problems… >— comment by Leigh L. Klotz, Jr. on June 7th, 2008 at 3:22am JST (12 years, 6 months ago) — comment permalink Arthur van Hoff (the author of PdB and the original Java compiler written in Java) has also written more PostScript than Jamie, especially if you count the PostScript written by programs he wrote, like PdB and GoodNeWS/HyperNeWS/HyperLook. Here's the README file (and distribution) of PdB, Arthur van Hoff's object oriented C to PostScript compiler: https://github.com/IanDarwin/OpenLookCDROM/blob/master/NeWS/... Also a paper by Arthur van Hoff about "Syntactic Extensions to PdB to Support TNT Classing Mechanisms": https://www.donhopkins.com/home/archive/NeWS/PdB.txt Some before and after examples, like menu.h menu.pdb menu.PS: HyperNeWS 3.0 prototype source: https://www.donhopkins.com/home/archive/HyperLook/Turing/hn3... menu.h: https://www.donhopkins.com/home/archive/HyperLook/Turing/hn3... menu.pdb: https://www.donhopkins.com/home/archive/HyperLook/Turing/hn3... menu.PS: https://www.donhopkins.com/home/archive/HyperLook/Turing/hn3... GoodNeWS/HyperNeWS/HyperLook: https://medium.com/@donhopkins/hyperlook-nee-hypernews-nee-g...

In Source of the famous “Now you have two problems” quote (2006)

DonHopkins·Mar 1, 2020

Here's the PdB object oriented C to PostScript compiler and lots of other NeWS stuff: https://github.com/IanDarwin/OpenLookCDROM/blob/master/NeWS/... https://github.com/IanDarwin/OpenLookCDROM/tree/master/NeWS/... https://github.com/IanDarwin/OpenLookCDROM/tree/master/NeWS Also a paper by Arthur van Hoff about "Syntactic Extensions to PdB to Support TNT Classing Mechanisms": https://www.donhopkins.com/home/archive/NeWS/PdB.txt More LispScript stuff (compiling Lisp to PostScript): https://www.donhopkins.com/home/archive/NeWS/NeScheme.txt And to compare some window management tasks in Forth and PostScript: X10 window manager in Forth: https://www.donhopkins.com/home/code/fuwm-main.forth.txt X11 window manager in PostScript: https://www.donhopkins.com/home/archive/NeWS/owm.ps.txt NeWS tabbed pie menu window manager in PostScript for TNT 2.2

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(which "owm" could wrap around X-Windows): https://www.donhopkins.com/home/archive/NeWS/tab-3.0.2.ps.tx... NeWS Tab Window Demo: Demo of the Pie Menu Tab Window Manager for The NeWS Toolkit 2.0. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMcmQk-q0k4

In Sun's NeWS was a mistake, as are all toolkit-in-server windowing systems (2013)