Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!uflorida!stat!kerce From: kerce@nu.cs.fsu.edu (Kingsley F. Kerce) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Info Req: WEB's history/popularity Message-ID: Date: 9 Jun 90 23:46:11 GMT Sender: news@stat.fsu.edu Distribution: comp.text.tex Organization: Florida State University Computer Science Lines: 16 How popular is WEB? What well-known programs have been written using it? (I know TeX has.) Is WEB too cumbersome to use for anything other than midsized to large software projects? Is web2c just as popular? How buggy are WEB and web2c? Any commercial developers using it for structured docs on projects? What's Stanford U.'s outlook on it? Have any commercial types taken the idea and implemented something similar to WEB, or was the WEB idea taken from a previous package (commercial or otherwise)? What's the history of WEB since Knuth's publishing? Why am I asking so many questions? Anecdotes welcome. Email please...thanks -- Kingsley Kerce USnail: Dept. of Computer Sci. (or Dept. of Psych.) Email: kerce@nu.cs.fsu.edu Florida State University Work Phone: (904) 644-5436 Tallahassee, FL 32306