cotner@brahms.berkeley.edu (Carl Cotner) (01/12/90)
Does anyone have any information about Donald Knuth's Literate Programming concept. Is this explained in his books, The Art of Computer Programming? I'm only aware of Knuth through TeX. I believe that TeX is stored in a web file, which combines source code with documentation, in accordance with his belief that the 2 should be closely integrated. I'm very interested in this. I would look into web, only I believe that web will extract a Pascal file. I'm more interested in working on a C based project. Is there a C version of WEB? If someone can enlighten me by providing me with more details on web, on Literate Programming, and on how I can accomplish my tasks in C, I'd be grateful. Thanks Carl cotner@brahms.Berkeley.EDU ucbvax!brahms!cotner Carl Cotner/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720
reino@cs.eur.nl (Reino de Boer) (01/16/90)
cotner@brahms.berkeley.edu (Carl Cotner) writes: >Does anyone have any information about Donald Knuth's Literate >Programming concept. Is this explained in his books, The Art of >Computer Programming? I'm only aware of Knuth through TeX. [...] ``The WEB system of structured documentation'' by Donald E. Knuth, Stanford Computer Science Report 980 (Stanford, California, September, 1983), 206 pp. A ten-page user manual for WEB, followed by complete programs for WEB in its own language. ``Literate programming'' by Donald E. Knuth, The Computer Journal 27 (1984), 97--111. An expository introduction to WEB and its underlying philosophy. >I'm very interested in this. I would look into web, only I believe that >web will extract a Pascal file. I'm more interested in working on a >C based project. Is there a C version of WEB? Yes, there is, and it is distributed along with TeX for UNIX systems (as far as I'm aware). The relevant programs are called Cweave and Ctangle. >Thanks You're welcome -- Reino -- Reino R. A. de Boer Erasmus University Rotterdam ( Informatica ) e-mail: reino@cs.eur.nl