rick@hanauma (Richard Ottolini) (09/07/88)
"PostScript is like Chinese food--- an hour later you can't understand what you had written." Reverse Polish languages are very powerful compared to the amount of computer resources they require, but force the programmer to think in contorted non-problem oriented manner. On another topic I find NeWS very defficient it its imaging capabilities. You have no control over how an image is interpolated onto pixels or good color models. There are scientific data images that I don't want distorted by spline interpolation. Jim Gosling, one of NeWS architects, desires to be independent of bitplane and color table hardware. I believe that the settransfer function can be generalized for color mapping between one description of color (e.g. psuedo-color) into the displayed image without making it machine dependent.
peterson@SW.MCC.COM (James Peterson) (09/08/88)
> "PostScript is like Chinese food--- an hour later you can't understand what > you had written." I can write similar code in any language I write; To prevent this, I try to write code which is commented, uses meaningful variable names, small and meaningful procedures, and so on. As a result, I have had no problem reading, understanding and modifying PostScript code 3 to 4 months after it was written. I would suggest that problems like this are a failure of the writer, not the language. jim