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Subject: CWEB found ?
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Date: Thu, 25-Jun-87 22:07:22 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 25 22:07:22 1987
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I have been interested in obtaining CWEB for some time after reading
about it in Knuth's Computer Journal article on WEB. I'm glad to see
from a recent message that others have caught on to the potential that
a similar literate programming system offers to C programmers.

Knuth's article simply says that CWEB was developed by Harold Thimbleby
at the University of York. There are unfortunately 2 Universities of York,
one in Canada and the other in England. After writing to both, I received
a reprint of Thimbleby's article "Experiences of 'Literate Programming'
Using CWEB" , Computer Journal, vol.29, No.3, 1986, pp. 201-211. He also
provided me, at my request, with a network address:
             harold@uk.ac.york.munster

His regular mailing address is: Dept. of Computer Science
                                University of York
                                Heslington, York YO1 5DD
                                United Kingdom

I had some difficulty finding a pathway to his network address so I
wrote to him again and asked him to contact me over the network so
I could try to work backwards through the path he used. He did this.
However, I have been unsuccessful in getting him to send me any more
messages over the network or to answer any more of my letters. In
particular, I despair of getting access to CWEB.

If anyone else succeeds in getting their hands on CWEB, I'd be very
interested in hearing about it.