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PostScript is a text markup language created in 1982 by John Warnock and Chuck Geschke and Doug Brotz and Ed Taft and Bill Paxton.

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PostScript (PS) is a page description language in the electronic publishing and desktop publishing business. It is a dynamically typed, concatenative programming language and was created at Adobe Systems by John Warnock, Charles Geschke, Doug Brotz, Ed Taft and Bill Paxton from 1982 to 1984.. Read more on Wikipedia...

PostScript Wikipedia page
PostScript docs
There are at least 8,053 PostScript repos on GitHub
PostScript first developed in Adobe
file extensions for PostScript include ps, eps, epsi and pfa
The Google BigQuery Public Dataset GitHub snapshot shows 4k users using PostScript in 4k repos on GitHub
Explore PostScript snippets on Rosetta Code
PostScript on HOPL
PostScript appears in the TIOBE Index
PostScript Ubuntu package
Pygments supports syntax highlighting for PostScript
GitHub supports syntax highlighting for PostScript
PostScript appears in the Quine Relay project
See also: (8 related languages)Ghostscript, Lisp, PDF, ASCII, Tex, Forth, Reverse Polish notation, LaTeX
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Example from Riju:

(Hello, world!) =

Example from hello-world:

% run> gs -q -sDEVICE=nullpage postscript.ps
(Hello World\n) print quit

Example from the Hello World Collection:

% Hello World in Postscript
%!PS
/Palatino-Roman findfont
100 scalefont
setfont
100 100 moveto
(Hello World!) show
showpage

Example from Linguist:

%!PS-Adobe-3.0
%%Creator: Aaron Puchert
%%Title: The Sierpinski triangle
%%Pages: 1
%%PageOrder: Ascend

%%BeginProlog
% PAGE SETTINGS
/pageset {
  28.3464566 28.3464566 scale    % set cm = 1
  0.5 0.5 translate
  0 setlinewidth
} def

% sierpinski(n) draws a sierpinski triangle of order n
/sierpinski {
dup 0 gt {
  [0.5 0 0 0.5 0 0] concat dup 1 sub sierpinski
  [1 0 0 1 1 0] concat dup 1 sub sierpinski
  [1 0 0 1 -1 1] concat dup 1 sub sierpinski
  [2 0 0 2 0 -1] concat
} {
  newpath
    0 0 moveto
    1 0 lineto
    0 1 lineto
  closepath
  fill
} ifelse pop} def
%%EndProlog

%%BeginSetup
<< /PageSize [596 843] >> setpagedevice  % A4
%%EndSetup

%%Page: Test 1
pageset
[20 0 10 300 sqrt 0 0] concat
9 sierpinski
showpage
%%EOF

Example from Wikipedia:

/mm {360 mul 127 div} def
 0 0 moveto
 0 40 mm lineto stroke

Feature	Supported	Token	Example
MultiLine Comments	✓
Integers	✓		% (\-\|\+)?[0-9]+(?=[()<>\[\]{}/%\s])
Floats	✓		% (\-\|\+)?([0-9]+\.?\|[0-9]\.[0-9]+\|[0-9]+\.[0-9])((e\|E)[0-9]+)?(?=[()<>\[\]{}/%\s])
Hexadecimals	✓		% <[0-9A-Fa-f]+>(?=[()<>\[\]{}/%\s])
Octals	✓		% [0-9]+\#(\-\|\+)?([0-9]+\.?\|[0-9]\.[0-9]+\|[0-9]+\.[0-9])((e\|E)[0-9]+)?(?=[()<>\[\]{}/%\s])
Print() Debugging	✓	print
Line Comments	✓	%	% A comment
Postfix Notation	✓
Comments	✓
Semantic Indentation	X

title	author	year	reviews	ratings	rating
PostScript Language Tutorial and Cookbook	Adobe Systems Inc.	1985	0	15	3.47
PostScript Language Reference Manual	Adobe Creative Team	1990	0	9	3.67

Books about PostScript from ISBNdb

title	authors	year	publisher
Inside PostScript	Frank Braswell	1991	Peachpit Press Publications
Mathematical Illustrations: A Manual of Geometry and PostScript	Casselman, Bill	2004	Cambridge University Press
Programming the Display Postscript System With Nextstep	Adobe Systems	1991	Addison-Wesley
Mathematical Illustrations: A Manual of Geometry and PostScript	Casselman, Bill	2005	Cambridge University Press
Display Postscript Programming	David A. Holzgang	1990	Addison-wesley Longman, Incorporated
Understanding Postscript Programming	David A Holzgang	1987	Sybex
Understanding Postscript Programming	David A Holzgang	1988	Sybex
Postscript & Acrobat/pdf	Thomas Merz	2018	Springer
Postscript Typeface Library: Sans Serif Design, Outline & Ornaments	Tony Esposito and Jean Callan King	1994	Van Nostrand Reinhold Computer
Programming The Display Postscript System With X (apl)	Adobe Systems	1993	Addison-wesley
Postscript And Acrobat/pdf: Applications, Troubleshooting, And Cross-platform-publishing	Thomas Merz	1996	Springer

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