bruno@sdcc10.ucsd.EDU (Bruce W. Mohler) (07/19/89)
I'm not even sure what newsgroup to ask this question is... What is Web (and tangle and web2c, etc)? I know what TeX is and that they're somehow related. Is there any introduction to Web that's ftp'able? Thanks, in advance. -- Bruce W. Mohler Systems Programmer (aka Staff Analyst) bruno@sdcc10.ucsd.edu voice: 619/586-2218
twb@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (thomas.w.beattie) (07/19/89)
In article <123@sdcc10.ucsd.EDU> bruno@sdcc10.ucsd.EDU (Bruce W. Mohler) writes: >What is Web (and tangle and web2c, etc)? I know what TeX >is and that they're somehow related. Tangle, Web and Weave are Donald Knuth's efforts toward literate programming. Refer to CACM "Programming Pearls" May and June 1986 and "Literate Programming" July 1987. --- Tom Beattie att!hoqaa!twb t.w.beattie@att.com
gp@ist.CO.UK (GP Saxena) (07/26/89)
In article <123@sdcc10.ucsd.EDU>, bruno@sdcc10.ucsd.EDU (Bruce W. Mohler) writes: > What is Web (and tangle and web2c, etc)? I know what TeX > is and that they're somehow related. > WEB is a system of structured documentation devised by Donald Knuth. I read a paper describing the WEB system a couple of years ago. From what I still remember, tangle is the processor which generates a Pascal program. A report on WEB is available from Stanford University. Sorry, I donot have the number. gp
bruno@sdcc10.ucsd.EDU (Bruce W. Mohler) (07/26/89)
Thanks to all who responded to my question about what WEB (and tangle) is(/are). Here are the two best responses: >> From: twb@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (thomas.w.beattie) >> Date: 19 Jul 89 14:28:07 GMT >> References: <123@sdcc10.ucsd.EDU> >> Reply-To: twb@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (thomas.w.beattie) >> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories >> Lines: 12 >> >> Tangle, Web and Weave are Donald Knuth's efforts toward literate >> programming. >> >> Refer to CACM "Programming Pearls" May and June 1986 and "Literate >> Programming" July 1987. >> --- >> Tom Beattie >> att!hoqaa!twb >> t.w.beattie@att.com >> and >> From: moe!jeremy%ppgbms@uunet.UU.NET (Jeremy Levine) >> >> Web is a language created by Don Knuth ( who created TeX ). >> It is ( WEB ) an attempt to combine documentation and code into >> one file. Web uses both pascal and TeX. The documentation and source >> code is stored in one file. You then run tangle on the web file and >> get a pascal file and a TeX file, DOC and CODE. Web2c does the same >> thing except it converts the pascal to C , I think. The best place >> to find out more about this is comp.text. They post a TeXhax digest mothly >> and it will have the ftp sites for all the TeX related stuff ....... >> >> Hope I helped >> /* >> * Jeremy D. Levine >> * Amarex Technology Inc. >> * 909 Third Ave NY NY 10022 >> * >> * sunybcs!levine >> * levine@cs.buffalo.edu >> * {uunet, decvax, sunybcs}!ppgbms!jeremy@philabs.philips.com >> */ Again, thanks for the information! -- Bruce W. Mohler Systems Programmer (aka Staff Analyst) bruno@sdcc10.ucsd.edu voice: 619/586-2218