PostScript is a page description and dynamically typed, stack based programming language created at Adobe Systems by John Warnock, Charles Geschke, Doug Brotz, Ed Taft and Bill Paxton between 1982 and 1984. It combines a concatenative, stack based execution model with procedural programming constructs and is Turing complete, so it can perform general computation as well as describe printed pages. PostScript became the standard control language for laser printers and desktop publishing systems during the 1980s and 1990s, letting a single program describe text, vector graphics and images in a device independent way. The most recent major revision, PostScript 3, was released in 1997, and the language remains foundational to the Portable Document Format that followed it.
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1982
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Dynamic, weak
Invented By: John Warnock, Lead sentence, creators
PostScript was created at Adobe Systems by John Warnock, Charles Geschke, Doug Brotz, Ed Taft and Bill Paxton from 1982 to 1984.
Invented By: Charles Geschke, Lead sentence, creators
PostScript was created at Adobe Systems by John Warnock, Charles Geschke, Doug Brotz, Ed Taft and Bill Paxton from 1982 to 1984.
In Group: Stack-Oriented Languages, Lead
PostScript (PS) is a page description language and dynamically typed, stack-based programming language.
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