On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 01:05:36PM -0700, Jack Woehr wrote:
> Matthias-Christian Ott wrote:
>> What I really like about it is that rendered documents (which used to
>> be PostScript or PDF) are now the same as ordinary applications except
>> that applications handle input and may modify their window contents.
>>
> NeWS sort of worked that way, except its virtual machine was,
> of course, PostScript. NeWS got beat out by XWindows.
Not really, it used a PostScript dialect which included OOP, events,
arithmetic etc.
Regards,
Matthias-Christian
Received on Thu Feb 19 2009 - 20:52:23 UTC
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