Let's Write a PostScript Interpreter

2 comments

• Renina 1 day ago
  Writing a tiny interpreter is one of those exercises that teaches you more about programming languages than months of just using them
• throwaway81523 1 day ago
  This is a yawner, Postscript (the language) is very simple, given run of the mill interpreter machinery. An actual working Postscript implementation is about graphics and font rendering, not the language interpreter. That stuff is still not trivial.
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  • cmrx64 9 minutes ago
    the amount of care to detail in the base language is great though. reading PLRM is a joy
  • viraptor 16 minutes ago
    Yet, it's going to be novel fun for some people. Let's celebrate today's lucky 10000. https://xkcd.com/1053/