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Glenn Reid
Personal blog · glennreid.blogspot.comprogrammingdesign
Glenn Reid's personal blog at glennreid.blogspot.com covers programming and design. Since 2013, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.
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Why HN links it
Commenters link this blog's posts on the history of PostScript, Interpress and NeWS as background on those systems. The comments cite it for facts and do not comment on the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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What Hacker News says?
I've written about the history of PostScript, Interpress and NeWS before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21968175 >Kragen is right that PostScript is a lot more like Lisp or Smalltalk than Forth, especially when you use Owen Densmore's object oriented PostScript programming system (which NeWS was based on). PostScript is semantically very different and much higher level that Forth, and syntactically similar to…
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on “Why are 2D vector graphics so much harder than 3D? (2019)”Submitted LinkedIn major bug as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIn this video of Eric Bier and his colleagues from Xerox PARC demonstrating Cedar, they discuss writing resolution independent applications, and the problem and approaches to matching the text and formatting displayed on the screen, with how it looks when printed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_dt7NG38V4 >Eric Bier Demonstrates Cedar. Computer History Museum, Recorded on January 24, 2019. >This interpretive produ…
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on “Sun's NeWS was a mistake, as are all toolkit-in-server windowing systems (2013)”Submitted Apple: Don't Lose My Data as a story · 1 points
HN discussionKragen is right that PostScript is a lot more like Lisp or Smalltalk than Forth, especially when you use Owen Densmore's object oriented PostScript programming system (which NeWS was based on). PostScript is semantically very different and much higher level that Forth, and syntactically similar to Forth but uses totally different names (exch instead of swap, pop instead of drop, etc). But its most obvious similariti…
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on “Masterminds of Programming: Chuck Moore (2009)”