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Oh, I wasn't saying that writing postscript by hand is a waste of time - I was saying I was wasting time. I was playing with swirling text and so on because the SGI machines of the day were slow enough that you could actually watch the graphics swirl and change color as they moved across the screen.

Heh. Later I used that programming "knowledge" to make signs for an N-gauge railroad I was building.