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Yes, and Brian Reid and Glenn Reid, who wrote the Adobe PostScript "Green Book" aka "PostScript Language Program Design", and "Thinking in PostScript", the PostScript "The Distillery", and "TouchType" for the NeXT, are brothers!

https://freecomputerbooks.com/PostScript-Language-Program-De...

https://freecomputerbooks.com/Thinking-in-Postscript.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28115946

>Glenn Reid wrote a PostScript partial evaluator in PostScript that optimized other PostScript drawning programs, called "The Distillery". You would send still.ps to your PostScript printer, and then send another PostScript file that drew something to the printer. The first PostScript Distillery program would then partially evaluate the second PostScript drawing program, and send back a third PostScript program, an optimized drawing program, with all the loops and conditionals unrolled, calculations and transformations pre-computed, all in the same coordinate system.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19751161

>Around 1990, Glenn Reid wrote a delightful original "Font Appreciation" app for NeXT called TouchType, which decades later only recently somehow found its way into Illustrator. Adobe even CALLED it the "Touch Type Tool", but didn't give him any credit or royalty. The only difference in Adobe's version of TouchType is that there's a space between "Touch" and "Type" (which TouchType made really easy to do), and that it came decades later!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19882301

>Brian's brother Glenn Reid was also very active in the PostScript world, he worked for Adobe (Illustrator), Apple (iMovie) and Fractal Design (Painter, Dabbler, Poser), and NeXT (Interpersonal Computing).

Brian Reid also published the Usenet Cookbook, maps of Usenet in PostScript, and wrote the story about "The Mother of All Grease Fires" that almost happened outside of where he worked at DECWRL (DEC Western Research Laboratories in Palo Alto).

https://milk.com/wall-o-shame/bucket.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Reid_(computer_scientist...




NB: Interpress, The Source Book (Harrington & Buckley) is now available at the Internet Archive:

<https://archive.org/details/interpresssource0000harr/page/2/...>


I was aware of Eric's Usenet activity / participation reports, which are included in John S. Quarterman's The Matrix, a very early 1990s survey of "computer networks and conferencing systems" (it predates the WWW).

I think I was vaguely aware of his work on Scribe though that had slunk off into dark recesses of my brain (which is to say, most of it). Given my interests in documents and their specification & management, Scribe's been something I've meant to look at more closely, so this is a handy reminder, and I appreciate the further context.




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