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From: gp@ist.CO.UK (GP Saxena)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: What is WEB?
Summary: WEB is a system of structured documentation
Keywords: web tangle TeX
Message-ID: <2334@istop.ist.CO.UK>
Date: 25 Jul 89 17:43:31 GMT
References: <123@sdcc10.ucsd.EDU>
Organization: Imperial Software Technology, London, UK
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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.
> 
WEB is a system of structured documentation devised by Donald Knuth.
I read a paper describing the WEB system a couple of years ago. From 
what I still remember, tangle is the processor which generates a Pascal 
program. A report on WEB is available from Stanford University. Sorry, I
donot have the number. 

gp