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From: norman@husc4.HARVARD.EDU (John Norman)
Newsgroups: alt.hypertext
Subject: Re: hypertext and CASE
Keywords: hypertext, CASE
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Date: 29 Jan 88 22:45:15 GMT
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In article <1670@copper.TEK.COM> jimbi@copper.TEK.COM (Jim Bigelow) writes:
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>In summary, I propose that a hypertext database can be used to hold everything
>associated with a software project, the specifications, designs, manuals,
>test suites, code, etc.  Links are used to connect and make explicit the 
>existing implicit links between the project components.  Furthermore, the
>reuse of project components is facilitated by using links. A paragraph may
>be used in a use manual, specification and a comment in the code without
>duplicating the text.
>
>I've built a prototype of a utility to convert a set of C source files to a
>hypertext structure I call the source code tree.

This reminds me of Knuth's "WEB" system for building programs with comments.
It would be interesting for WEB to be available in such an on-line system.


John Norman
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