PostScript Language Developed

PostScript, which would go on to influence the Processing language created by Casey Reas and Ben Fry 25 years later, was developed by Dr John Warnock at PARC, Xerox’s research arm.

The PostScript language was built to “to communicate complex graphic printing instructions to digital laser printers.”

Warnock attempted to develop PostScript, then known as Interpress at PARC but was turned down. He then, along with Charles M. ‘Chuck’ Geschke, founded the company Adobe to rival Interpress, developing PostScript at Adobe as a robust, geometric procedural language that was more than just software to control printers.

They released PostScript finally in 1984.