Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Gail wrote:

> > Geek level 1 - writing something useless just for fun
> > Geek level 2 - rewriting it to make it run faster.

> Geek level 3 - rewriting it in an exotic Turning-complete gibberish 
> language just to prove you can.

  There is certain fun in stressing programs or devices with unusual code.

  It's a shame that almost no printer nowadays supports reading and
interpreting PostScript anymore (nowadays almost every single one of them
has a OS driver which interprets the PostScript on the computer and only
then sends the chewed up page data to the printer), but in the good old
days when PS files were sent *raw* to printers and the printer interpreted
it, it was fun to send a PostScript Mandelbrot for them to ruminate about.

http://warp.povusers.org/MandScripts/ps.html

  Remember that back the first year I was at the University I tried it with
a printer there, and it took it something like a half an hour to print it.
Many years later I tried it again with a newer printer, and it had printed
it before I could get from the computer to the printer.

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                                                          - Warp

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