Origin

PostScript has a rich history that we delve into here for a small bit.

Developed by Adobe Systems PostScript culminated in 1984 as a laser printer driver. Now almost entirely replaced with its successor Portable Document Format (PDF), it is a

page description language in the electronic publishing and desktop publishing realm. It is a dynamically typed, concatenative programming language.

PostScript allows you to accurately describe how a page should look like. It is a language that usually is generated by a program instead of written by hand. Which is a shame because it is a beautiful language full of interesting aspects.