zvr@natasha.cs.wisc.EDU (Alexios Zavras) (02/04/90)
I've seen a reference to CWEB, another version of web
that deals with C and troff (rather than Pascal and TeX).
Can anybody provide more info (better yet, how to get it ?)
Thanks in advance,
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(of Joe McCarthy, too, but try to forget that)toan@hpscdc.scd.hp.com (Toan Tran) (02/06/90)
I know that you can get cweb and/or the more general package spiderweb from princeton.edu by anonymous ftp. Good luck
cebaker@mbunix.mitre.org (Baker) (02/06/90)
Someone recently posted a request for the program CWeb (a version of Web that uses C and Troff). I would also like to know where I may obtain a copy of CWeb. Thank you, Russell Todd email: rft@sdimax2.mitre.org U. S. Mail: MITRE Corporation M/S T180 Burlington Rd. Bedford, MA 01730
zvr@natasha.cs.wisc.EDU (Alexios Zavras) (02/13/90)
Some days ago I asked the net about the cweb program.
Here's all revelant information.
``Human Factors and Typography for More Readable Programs,''
by Ronald M. Baecker and Aaron Marcus.
[It's an ACM Press edition, published by Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-10745-7]
They are describing ``SEE,'' a visual compiler. It's extremely unfortunate
that they say: ``Because our prototype is so fragile, we regretfully
cannot make it available to other investigators.'' :-(
In the section on ``Literate Programming'' they refer to Knuth's WEB,
but they also mention on a footnote ``Cweb (Thimbleby 1986), a WEB-like
system that deals with C rather than Pascal and uses troff rather than
TeX.'' The reference given is: Thimbleby, H. ``Experiences of Literate
Programming using Cweb (a variant of Knuth's WEB),'' The Computer
Journal 29(3), 201-211.
*That* was the program I was asking about.
I got the cweb that is available for anonymous ftp from princeton.edu.
It looks like the original web, but is intended to be used with C and
not with Pascal. It still uses TeX, of course. So, that was *NOT* what
I was looking for. (thanks anyway).
Two more pointers to similar products (again, NOT the one I wanted :-):
Spiderweb (also on princeton.edu). It's based on cweb, but it's more
easily extended to other languages.
I was also pointed to the web2c in uunet.uu.net. As far a I know that's
the first way there was to convert a WEB document into C (instead of
Pascal), so that TeX would compile on some Unix machines.
The mysterious cweb remains undiscovered.
Thanks to all who responded,
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