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Postscript itself can be fun and interesting. Many folks have taken it well beyond a page description language. Don Lancaster has been using it as a general purpose programming language for years: http://www.tinaja.com/post01.s...

How about a Postscript web server? http://www.pugo.org:8080/

Yeah, but if you don't implement the spreadsheet in PostScript and then embed it in a web server, are you really obfuscating it enough?

Ok, that's about the most amusing hack since someone wrote a fully working web server in postscript: http://www.pugo.org:8080/

(Still think the postscript web server leads the list of odd hacks)

There's actually a quite remarkable web server written in postscript.

This php webserver reminds me of HTTPi a webserver written in 100% perl. Neither of which are that hard when you know. However Anders "Pugo" Karlsson wrote a webserver called PS HTTPD in postscript. Now that I found very impressive :)

Why bother with Apache when you can get the power of PS-HTTPD

PS-HTTPD is a HTTP-server written in Postscript. It can handle the main task of a webserver, serving data.

No doubt about it: Here's a web server written in postscript language. hee hee hee ;-)

Postscript is no more "written" than 386 machine code. Both are generated by a computer processing a higher-level description that is more amenable to human understanding.

Like MS-Word's internal format, yeah, rii-ight... (-:

Anyhoo, I'd like to see the higher-level description that produced this. (-:

Such a device would be controlled by a robot arm, a la Starshit Troopers.

If the robot runs Windows, which is very popular in tattoo parlers, then you are more likely to get a 300 page raw postscript dump. If you are put under for the tattoo, or pass out from the pain, you will awake to have postscript covering your entire body.

At first this sounds bad, but you could sue M$ for enough money to buy the UNIX code and GPL it.

(Sorry if this turned into a rant, the printer at work dumped hundreds of pages of postscript onto expensive paper under the direction of a Windows XP system. My Debian iBook came to the rescue and reprinted it correctly.)

Anyways, postscript is cooler than a null pointer exception, especially if it's a poscript http server.

I've never used it, but you're talking about PS-HTTPD.

Pretty cool, eh?

Yes, it can be found here

It must be used with inetd though, because postscript doesn't support sockets...

PS-HTTPD - a webserver in PostScript.

Bah, PHP? Try awk, Bash or Postscript for a thrill!

You can see it here.

Is there such a thing as a sh-hof? In that case I would like to nominate the sed hack in the story, and this webserver written in postscript... :)

There's a big difference between GDI and Postscript.

Yeah, I still wait for a GDI equivalent of a Postscript Webserver...

...so unless you're just trying to impress girls or something, assembly is best left to the half-dozen driver programmers on the planet who still need it...

But if you ARE trying to impress girls, WOW, I can't think of a better -- oh, wait. Nevermind. Someone already found a better way, a webserver coded in PostScript.