Lisp2PostScript

TorgoX on 2005-08-25T22:42:34

Dear Log,

Huh.

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lisp2postscript?

rjbs on 2005-08-25T23:21:29

What a totally neat, if poorly named, project!

Confusing stack languages are !

ziggy on 2005-08-25T23:24:50

That sorta makes sense. But this monstrosity makes no sense whatsoever.

FORTH ♥ IF honk THEN

n1vux on 2005-08-26T03:06:47

Yeah, I'd rather have a stack and document my gazintas and gazoutas than have whitespace-rules ...

Mr.Obviousman says -- the Subject is in the stack-language FORTH, of which PostScript is adapted, for "If you love Forth, honk" -- and was a über-geekly topical reply "back in the day" to the ubiquitous "Honk if you love Jesus" bumper stickers.

If you see linenoise above, it is of course Unicode ♥ aka ♥ and ♥ and ♥ or 0x2665 , which might be a legal subroutine in Unicode aware Perl, if you ensure it's in /\w/ in your locale, but was a legal subroutine name in early PC Forths, such as MMS Forth -- anything but White Space was a legal identifier, although using pure numbers as identifiers would cause a problem, so we didn't do that.