chuq%plaid@Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) (06/24/87)
From: Paul Schauble <Schauble@MIT-Multics.ARPA>
I'm surprised no one has previously followed up on this.
About three weeks ago, someone posted a message on Info-C making a
passing reference to CWEB. This was obviously a version Knuth's WEB
system converted to work with C.
I know just enough about WEB to know that I'm interested, and this
finally motivates me to want to know more.
I know that we have people from Stanford on the net. Can someone please
provide me with ordering information for any books or technical reports.
I understand that the WEB system is available in source. From where? And
what, if anything is available on CWEB? Who did this conversion? Is this
available?
As usual, please answer directly to me if possible. I'll post any
concrete information back to these groups.
Thanks in advance,
Paul
<Schauble at MIT-Multics.ARPA>
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Now, where did my ex-wife put my Fairy Dust?chuq%plaid@Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) (06/29/87)
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1987 14:05-EDT From: Peter.Su@gnome.cs.cmu.edu >About three weeks ago, someone posted a message on Info-C making a >passing reference to CWEB. This was obviously a version Knuth's WEB >system converted to work with C. Hi, I was the one who posted to info-c, and I did get some information about CWEB. It ends up they used C and troff, and it also costs 150 punds to get the tape from the people (they are from the Univ. of York). Since troff is ugly, and I am poor, I thought about doing something for myself (but with TeX and C). Information about WEB is contained in two Standford TeX reports (sorry), which you can probably get from Knuth himself, (DEK@sail or something). They are "The WEB System of Structured Documentation" and "Literate Programming." The first one has documentation for WEB, and full sources (in WEB of course), and the second is just a tutorial, and some experiences with the system. I've been playing with WEB and find it to be pretty neat, but kind of crippled by pascal. It also can get kind of confusing, before you get used to it becauase it's hard to figure out what order tangle will put things into when all is done. On the whole though, it's good, and it makes great listings! It's not hard to get WEB, it's usually with any TeX distribution. There are also some people in Texas that did MacWEB, for MPW (info is in the Texhax digest). I was thinking about getting this and making it work for C...but MPW pascal is not so bad. Here is other info I got in the mail. ---- Message 9 (740 chars) is ---- From: mcvax!minster.york.ac.uk!harold@seismo.CSS.GOV I think you are referring to Experiences with Literate Programming Using CWEB (A variant of Knuth's WEB), Computer Journal, vol 29 no 3, pp201-211 by H. W. Thimbleby ---- Message 10 (1458 chars) is ---- From: Andrew Ormsby <mcvax!praxis!arto@seismo.CSS.GOV> Organization: Praxis Systems plc, 20 Manvers Street, Bath BA1 1PX, UK See "Literate Programming in C, Cweb Manual & Small Example" by H.W.Thimbleby. This is a technical report available from the author at the Department of Computer Science, University of York, YO1 5DD, UK. Knuth mentions Thimbleby's Cweb in his original "Literate Programming" paper. Andrew Ormsby UUCP: seismo!mcvax!ukc!praxis!arto or try: arto%praxis.uucp@UKC.AC.UK ---- Message 9 (1280 chars) is ---- From: osupyr!gae@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Gerald Edgar) Organization: The Ohio State University, Dept. of Math. Address for CWEB info: Dept of COmputer Science University of York York, YO1 5DD, England They sent me a 5 page licence agreement I had to sign. The fee (educational institution) was 150 pounds sterling. I didn't get it. -- Gerald A. Edgar TS1871@OHSTVMA.bitnet Department of Mathematics edgar@osupyr.UUCP The Ohio State University Columbus, OH 43210 70715,1324 CompuServe ...{akgua,gatech,ihnp4,ulysses}!cbosgd!osu-eddie!osupyr!gae -- ARPA: hugo@gnome.cs.cmu.edu UUCP: ...!{ucbvax,ihnp4,cmucspt}!hugo@gnome.cs.cmu.edu "There are reports that many executives make their decisions by flipping coins or by throwing darts, etc. It is also rumored that some college professors prepare their grades on such a basis." - Donald Knuth ---------------------------------------- Submissions to: desktop%plaid@sun.com -OR- sun!plaid!desktop Administrivia to: desktop-request%plaid@sun.com -OR- sun!plaid!desktop-request Paths: {ihnp4,decwrl,hplabs,seismo,ucbvax}!sun Chuq Von Rospach chuq@sun.COM Delphi: CHUQ Touch Not the Cat Bot a Glove -- MacIntosh Clan Motto