[TUHS] tangential unix question: whatever happened to NeWS?

[Ronald Natalie]

Writing simple renderings isn't too bad.  Trying to implement program 
logic in it is horrid.   Believe me, I spent years dealing with a system 
that was sort of a NeWS spin-off.    Shoot me before I ever have to use 
a language without local variables again.


------ Original Message ------
From: "Larry McVoy" <lm at mcvoy.com>
To: "Ronald Natalie" <ron at ronnatalie.com>
Cc: "Larry McVoy" <lm at mcvoy.com>; "Clem Cole" <clemc at ccc.com>; "TUHS 
main list" <tuhs at minnie.tuhs.org>
Sent: 1/24/2021 3:54:51 PM
Subject: Re: Re[2]: [TUHS] tangential unix question: whatever happened 
to NeWS?

>On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 08:39:13PM +0000, Ronald Natalie wrote:
>>  to do Java which got around the simple fact that as far as a programming
>>  language for human programmers, PostScript is absolutely abysmal.
>
>Abysmal?  Perhaps a bit harsh.  The Sun logo was hand written
>postscript and I did the first SPARC Cluster and made a logo that was
>4 interconnected Sun logos in the same shape, I can probably dig it up.
>
>I think it was more weird, reminded me of Forth (also weird).  But you
>could make stuff work in it.