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Re: Cute Keith :-)

posted by [personal profile] ckd at 08:34pm on 2004-12-14
"Similarly, there have been other languages, for printing markup, described as "page description languages".

PostScript is a full-blown programming language, though I'm not crazy enough to actually try to program in it.
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Re: Cute Keith :-)

posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 03:46am on 2004-12-15
True, Postscript does go way beyond being merely a page description language. Variables, branches, loops, it's a programming language that just happens to have been designed for layout, not a mere markup language.
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And then there's TeX

posted by [identity profile] weskeag.livejournal.com at 05:55pm on 2004-12-15
Which is *also* a programming language as well as a markup language. Donald Knuth has some amusing examples in the TeXBook.
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