kerce@nu.cs.fsu.edu (Kingsley F. Kerce) (06/10/90)
How popular is WEB? What well-known programs have been written using it? (I know TeX has.) Is WEB too cumbersome to use for anything other than midsized to large software projects? Is web2c just as popular? How buggy are WEB and web2c? Any commercial developers using it for structured docs on projects? What's Stanford U.'s outlook on it? Have any commercial types taken the idea and implemented something similar to WEB, or was the WEB idea taken from a previous package (commercial or otherwise)? What's the history of WEB since Knuth's publishing? Why am I asking so many questions? Anecdotes welcome. Email please...thanks -- Kingsley Kerce USnail: Dept. of Computer Sci. (or Dept. of Psych.) Email: kerce@nu.cs.fsu.edu Florida State University Work Phone: (904) 644-5436 Tallahassee, FL 32306
ajayshah@aludra.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) (06/11/90)
In article <KERCE.90Jun9194611@nu.cs.fsu.edu> kerce@nu.cs.fsu.edu (Kingsley F. Kerce) writes: >How popular is WEB? What well-known programs have been written using ... >since Knuth's publishing? Why am I asking so many questions? Why did Knuth use Web? He's a smart guy, and not likely to be flaky, so why Web? Knowing him, aren't you surprised he didn't just go off and define a language he felt convenient to him? But what the hell is Web anyway? If it's a language then why translate to C? Why shouldn't I ask so many questions? I question therefore I am (ack! someone just cut me off) _______________________________________________________________________________ Ajay Shah, (213)747-9991, ajayshah@usc.edu The more things change, the more they stay insane. _______________________________________________________________________________