MJ Ray wrote: > So where did the above "PDF and PS are programming languages" argument > come from? References, please!
PDF and PS *are* programming languages, and quite powerful ones. However, they are entirely interpreted - the output of a pdf "compiler" would be a static image, not a pdf document, as pdf is the source (if that makes sense) PDF and PS documents are often mechanically generated - they are transformed from some other document format - but that doesn't mean that they are "compiled code". The transform is more like a preprocessor pass - the output is still valid source, just not the same source as was originally written. I would direct you to http://www.physics.uq.edu.au/people/foster/postscript.html for your amusement - the first example is a fairly impressive raytracing program written in postscript. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
