ericco@ssl.berkeley.edu (Eric C. Olson) (11/01/90)
I've read with interest the tread on tgrind and TeX, which naturally
led me to look into web. Web's ominous EPO (expert programmer's only)
introduction got me wondering. Does the world need yet another
procedural language?
Web uses three languages to provide solutions to software problems.
It seems better to have one than three. And if I had to choose
between embedding Pascal in TeX, or Tex in Pascal, I think I'd choose
the former. It seems that formatting text requires much more detailed
specifications than a code generator requires.
Would it be possible to generate, say, a pair of Latex document
styles, one which would create a document, and another which would
generate C source -- but both styles would parse the same syntax.
For example, these styles would require a \for command perhaps taking
4 arguments as in C (initialize;condition;next){expression}. In the
first style this would generate a nice report. In the second style it
would generate the for loop source in C -- or any other language.
Any ideas,
Eric
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Eric
ericco@ssl.berkeley.edu