Sujet : Re: On Stack-Based Languages (was Re: on Perl)
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : comp.unix.programmer comp.lang.miscDate : 19. Apr 2024, 22:57:53
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On Fri, 19 Apr 2024 14:16:28 +0000, James K. Lowden wrote:
I believe Keith Packard describes Cairo as PostScript
without the syntax ...
The PostScript graphics model (even Display PostScript) never progressed
beyond the concept of putting marks on paper.
While Cairo is clearly inspired by PostScript, it is also clearly an
improvement on it, adding features specifically to support interactive
graphics on a display screen, like operators and alpha channels. It also
has better Unicode support.