PostScript (PS) is a page description language and dynamically typed, stack-based programming language. It is most commonly used in the electronic publishing and desktop publishing realm, but as a Turing complete programming language, it can be used for many other purposes as well. PostScript was created at Adobe Systems by John Warnock, Charles Geschke, Doug Brotz, Ed Taft and Bill Paxton from 1982 to 1984. The most recent version, PostScript 3, was released in 1997. Wikipedia

Created Year: 1982
Designed by: John Warnock
Developed by: Adobe
Aliases: 05 3C OC OF CC 24 15 A9 2570 C5 B6 OC EC 90 02 F7 16 33 1B 4E 69 3F B7 DA 2B 69 79 E0 B9 5F 88 50
File extensions: ps

Wikidata: Q218170

Influenced: Processing

Influenced by: Forth • Interpress • Lisp

Programming paradigms: concatenative programming • multi-paradigm programming • procedural programming • stack-oriented programming

Language types: interpreted language • multi-paradigm programming language • stack-oriented programming language

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