[E-Lang] Re: E questions

[Chris Hibbert]

> Postscript's 
> success is peculiar -- it was promoted as a protocol for talking to printers 
> and not as a programming language.  Despite universal adoption in this 
> narrow niche, it has never spread beyond that, despite brief proprietary 
> attempts by Sun and NeXT to promote it as a display/ui extension language.

When I worked at DEC, it was in the group there that developed the X
Window system.  (Yes I know that the standard model is that X was
designed and developed at MIT.  That story was intentionally promulgated
because it was believed that X would sell better if it was
non-commercial.)  The people who built X uniformly claimed that Display
Postscript was a better solution.  They felt they had to develop X
because Sun refused to relinquish control of Display Postscript.

Chris