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From: scott@wiley.UUCP (Scott Simpson)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Wanted : Spidery WEBs for Lisp, Prolog, and Smalltalk
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Date: 11 Apr 90 17:59:43 GMT
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In article <1990Apr7.143459.24466@cs.umn.edu> rohigarg@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu (Rohit Garg) writes:
>Has anybody written spidery WEBs for lisp, prolog, or smalltalk
>that they would like to share with me. I am really impressed by
>the WEB concept.

Look at Norman Ramsey's spiderweb.  Spiderweb generates weaves and tangles
from grammar descriptions.  It would be hard to use WEB with interactive
languages like Lisp and Prolog though since WEB fits the compiler model.
Spiderweb is available on princeton.edu.
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Scott Simpson    		TRW 		scott@wilbur.coyote.trw.com