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From: tbrakitz@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Byron Rakitzis)
Newsgroups: gnu.gcc
Subject: Re: Literate GCC
Message-ID: <11898@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 3 Dec 89 05:33:45 GMT
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In-reply-to: ara@LOM1.MATH.YALE.EDU's message of 3 Dec 89 04:14:49 GMT

RE: CWEB. I know that a CWEB is available from the /pub/cweb directory
on princeton.princeton.edu. I'm not sure whether this program is in
the PD. In fact, I doubt it, since the header reads "Copyright
Princeton University". However, I'm also sure everyone is free to copy
it. For details, contact the author: levy@math.princeton.edu.

Regarding the program itself, I don't think it's as successful
processing C with WEB as it is for Pascal. For one, C has operators
like += and ^= and so on which don't really come across well with the
TeX math fonts. Perhaps a re-vamping of the way CWEB pretty-prints
things will change it. 

CWEB changes the way C programs look. Pascal is the kind of language
which one associates with textbooks, and left arrows for assignment
and so on, but I don't think it goes over well when you see

 source :       if (A == B && A != C)

 destination:   if( A\equiv B  \land A \not= C)

(I guess you have to know TeX to see why this transformation is
incongruous.) 

Oh well. Just some random late-night ramblings. Please excuse any
non-sequiturs. Good night.

-- 
"C Code."
	  "C Code run."
			"Run, Code, run!"
Byron Rakitzis. (tbrakitz@phoenix.princeton.edu ---- tbrakitz@pucc.bitnet)


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