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From: twb@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (thomas.w.beattie)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: What is WEB?
Keywords: web tangle TeX
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Date: 19 Jul 89 14:28:07 GMT
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In article <123@sdcc10.ucsd.EDU> bruno@sdcc10.ucsd.EDU (Bruce W. Mohler) writes:
>What is Web (and tangle and web2c, etc)?  I know what TeX
>is and that they're somehow related.

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.
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Tom Beattie
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