I received a simple patch recently that adds PostScript Language Level
1 compatibly to BWIPP. This improves compatibility with older or
simpler devices and might make things more efficient in some rare
cases.

So far as our codebase is concerned, the essential differences between
the Level 2 language (where we are now) and Level 1 language level are
as follows:

1. dicts are fixed size

We must properly size these in advance. No bad thing in the majority
of cases although some of our structures are dynamically sized based
on the user input. No big deal.

2. No << ... >> syntax for dicts

We must use alternative notation which makes the code slightly more
opaque in places.

3. No named resource support

We can guard this code so that the PostScript reverts to defining
standard PostScript procedure definitions (possibly in some named
dict, say uk_co_terryburton_bwipp) when the named resource mechanism
is not available.

So on balance what do people think? Worth the effort? Does anybody
have a production use case that would benefit from this?

Thanks,

Terry