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Thursday September 18, 2008
11:17 PM
How ghostscript parses PDF files
Did you know that PDF was created to replace PostScript?
Did you know that PostScript is a Turing-complete language?
Did you know that ghostscript's PDF parser is written in PostScript?
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Did you know that one of our own has implemented a Lisp interpreter in PostScript?
http://use.perl.org/~TorgoX/journal/29395 [perl.org]
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