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c00p3r
It is so old-fashioned and nostalgic. Now it is time to write something like Nodejs clone in Flash - almost perfect mix of a buzz, uselessness and absurdity. ^_^
atomical
Flash already has sockets. What would be the point?
owyn
Old school! Back in the 90's I worked with someone who still used NEWS as his desktop window manager (it was written in postscript...)
kjuhjk
It rendered using display postscript - it wasn't itself written in postscript
arethuza
I used HyperNeWS for a few years and it was most certainly mostly written in PostScript - pretty much a work of genius by Arthur van Hoff before he joined Sun and worked on Java.

NeWS windows were objects in PostScript - I can remember logging into colleagues NeWS servers using psh and doing things like setting the CTM for a window to rotate it by a few degrees...

kjuhjk
Wow that's amazing - I always assumed that only the text went to a simple PS renderer.

One of my colleages once wrote the universities crest in PS, by hand - and it's a complicated one with lots of lions and crowns.

FraaJad
How does one run this code?

I got it "running" with "gs"(ghostscript), but I don't see where i can change the port number on which the server listens to requests.