PostScript

since unknown year (earliest usage recorded on this site was 1985)

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coordt

brucehoult

growe

AndyC

ndw

boutell

whosaysni

jtauber

fdrake

thraxil

Kanru

coordt - 11 years

brucehoult - 40 years

growe - 35 years

AndyC - 35 years

ndw - 31 years

boutell - 1 years

whosaysni - 31 years

jtauber - 1 years

fdrake - 3 years

thraxil - 24 years

dl - 18 years

Kanru - 15 years

brucehoult

1985–

In my first job I needed to produce business graphics. There was an HP plotter driven by SAS but it was crap. We got the first Apple LaserWriter and hooked it to the Data General minicomputer and I wrote PoastScript by hand, and generated it from PL/I programs. I haven't stopped using it since -- still the best way to generate graphics on Linux and OSX.

coordt

1985–1995

growe

1990–

I wouldn't say I've written entire programs in Postscript, but I have at some point got to the level where I could look through Postscript code and figure out what it was doing. These days it seems mainly to be a format for those caught in the Cretaceous Linux era.

AndyC

1990–

I've only got a vague memory of doing this, but I did write a program that outputted postscript. Wish I could remember more.

boutell

1994

Wrote print drivers for receipts in Boutell.Com's order processing system. I shaved a fine yak in those days. (And credible alternatives were few, to be fair)

ndw

1994–

whosaysni

1994–

Was my precious drawing tool.

jtauber

1996

fdrake

1997–1999

Used this for printing from an (somewhat) early web browser, but still use a little from time to time for play projects.

thraxil

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Kanru

2010–

fotakis