What I should be doing: Finishing off some work for tomorrow morning.

What I am actually doing: Figuring out how to run an Infocom interpreter on a weird label printer.

WHY DO THESE LABEL PRINTERS HAVE A CURSED BASIC INTERPRETER

Things That I Do Not Want My Label Printer To Do Not Even Once Why Did You Do This Who Hurt You

@jonty i opened up the postscript manual this week and i can see why postscript is used as an output format rather than a programming language

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@zip @jonty I regret to inform you that postscript is turing-complete

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