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-A stack-based ProgrammingLanguage that resembles [Forth], but mixes in some functional programming principles to allow a considerably higher level of abstraction. Although a complete, general purpose language, it was developed for typesetting and is accompanied by a complex, powerful graphical model. [Apple]'s [MacOSX] uses an PostScript in an extended version called ~DisplayPostscript to render all of the user interface
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+A stack-based ProgrammingLanguage that resembles [Forth], but mixes in some functional programming principles to allow a considerably higher level of abstraction. Although a complete, general purpose language, it was developed for typesetting and is accompanied by a complex, powerful graphical model.
PostScript programs come in __.ps__ files. GhostScript is a [Free] software-only implementation of the language and graphics model, allowing users to view such files onscreen as well as send them to cheap printers that do not understand PostScript natively. PostScript is also the language used at the core of [PDF].
The [Printing HOWTO | http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Printing-HOWTO/] explains why PostScript happened to become so well established.
