The Best Ever: PostScript 0/2

No pstidy plug-in yet

No fancy colored PostScript for you, but I'll try to explain this one anyway...

/;{}def/#{def}def/$_={/Times-Bold exch selectfont}#/_{rmoveto}#/"{dup}#/*/!/$
;/q{exch}#/x ; {/J q #}#/.{/T q #}#{stringwidth}#{}#{}# 14 string dup dup dup
260 40 moveto 90 rotate ; %/}};$0='"\e[7m \e[0m"';@ARGV=split//,reverse 
q(ThePerl). q(Journal) x 220 ; q ; 0 T putinterval exch 7 J putinterval ;
 ; $_= q /m$ pop T($*!$"=!$ " )pop " * true% ? $ " $!" "  !!  !! % !" !"    !
! charpath {!"""}pop $ pop{""!}pop ! neg{!#}pop 220 ! neg _{!!}pop J false %T
charpath  clip " pop 0 " moveto 6{!!}pop $_= 105{!!}pop {$ ! $ " !  #! ##}
pop{dup dup $ ! " pop pop q{"}pop 22{dup show}repeat {"}pop q 22 mul{$ "} pop
neg{!#! $ "}pop ! 8 .65 mul{$ # # $}pop ! neg{"}pop  _ pop{"}pop } repeat pop
" {  $ " ! ! ! $ " ! !" "#"  #"!"""""! #" " # "m/;@ARGV=(@ARGV[-14..-1])x50;q}
 0 "%};s/m[ou]|[-\dA-ln-z.\n_{}]|\$_=//gx;s/(.)(?{$*=''})/('$*.='.(++$#
%2?'':"$0;").'pop;')x(ord($1)-31).'$*'/gee;s/((.(\e\[.m)*|.){77})/$1\n/g;print
; sub showpage {}

Comments start with % (and are green-colored).
PostScript works very much like Forth. Whitespace is the delimiter, and almost any token can be redefined, thanks to the def operator.

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