Originally published at: Adobe co-founder John Warnock dead at 82 | Boing Boing
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Will his grave plot require a yearly subscription?
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He canceled early and see what happened?
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John Warnock, co-founder of Adobe and creator of Postscript
mucking about with Postscript (a fascinating programming language) lead me to discover Forth on which Postscript was based, and that lead to all sorts of fun little threaded stack languages for fun little Arduino like devices; thus a nerdish forelock pull to Mr Warnock in his passing.
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Sorry to say it, but I hate Acrobat: an app that ignores practically all UI conventions of the OS it runs on, and also breaks a whole bunch of UI design principles. One of the worst things is all the modes it has, with weirdnesses like ‘edit’ and ‘fill’ being different, for example.
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Postscript is good and still very useful and yeah I remember diving into postscript 25+ years ago when I converted some stuff written in nroff/troff to postscript.
Adobe though, is and has been a turd. I remember Photoshop as the first piece of software that wanted to charge me to rent it. I’ve been using GIMP ever since.
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I also wonder if the font on his tombstone will expire soon. (If it’s a type 2 font)
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Gone in a Flash. What a Shockwave.
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His car sucked too.
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Yes!!!
The only decent adobe photo shop in existence:
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Interesting read with a couple of very interesting links.
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