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Re: What are people using SVG for?

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• Subject: Re: What are people using SVG for?
• From: David Megginson <david@m...>
• Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 09:42:54 -0400
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Robin Berjon writes:

 > Yes, I know that but I was thinking more of graphical capacities
 > and the such.  SVG does not endeavour to be a complete programming
 > language, something which I often hear perceived as an advantage
 > (eg it won't send your printer into an infinite loop).

Because Postscript is a procedural language, there's inevitably going
to be something you can do with it that you cannot do as efficiently
(or at all) with a declarative language.  Whatever that something is,
I doubt it's worth the complexity tradeoff, but all the same, don't be
surprised when someone pulls it out.


All the best,


David

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David Megginson, david@m..., http://www.megginson.com/

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