What is WEB?

[Bruce W. Mohler]

Thanks to all who responded to my question about what WEB
(and tangle) is(/are).  Here are the two best responses:

 >> From: twb at cbnewsh.ATT.COM (thomas.w.beattie)
 >> Date: 19 Jul 89 14:28:07 GMT
 >> References: <123 at sdcc10.ucsd.EDU>
 >> Reply-To: twb at 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 at att.com
 >> 

and


 >> From: moe!jeremy%ppgbms at 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 
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Again, thanks for the information!

-- 
Bruce W. Mohler
Systems Programmer (aka Staff Analyst)
bruno at sdcc10.ucsd.edu
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