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hinkley 19 hours ago

At least with external entities you could deny the parser an internet connection and force it to only load external documents from a cache you prepopulated and vetted. Turing completeness is a bullshit idea in document formats.

actionfromafar 18 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Postscript is pretty neat IMHO and it’s Turing complete. I really appreciated my raytraced page finally coming out of that poor HP laser after an hour or so.

aidenn0 18 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I once sent a Sierpinski's Triangle postscript program to a shared printer. It took 90 minutes, and pissed off everybody else trying to print.

hinkley 18 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

One of the very first SVG documents I encountered was a port of the PS Tiger to SVG. It loaded a lot faster than the PostScript Tiger.

anthk 17 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

PostScript can emulate the ZMachine (Zork text adventures and all of infocom) with "zmachine.ps". Look it up at DDG/GG.

bigfatkitten 18 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Sounds almost like a fun crypto mining opportunity.

aidenn0 18 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

With SVGs you can serve them from a different domain. IIUC the issue from TFA was that the SVGs were served from the primary domain; had they been on a different domain, they would have not been allowed to do as much.

gnerd00 18 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

calling Leonard Rosenthol ...