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From: bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield)
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Subject: Re: 2nd Generation GNU Emacs & texinfo ?
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Date: 31 May 89 18:24:41 GMT
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In-reply-to: eho@bogey.Princeton.EDU's message of 28 May 89 01:31:28 GMT

In article <EHO.89May27213128@bogey.Princeton.EDU> eho@bogey.Princeton.EDU (Eric Y.W. Ho) writes:
   Also, is anyone extending texinfo where it can integrate code as
   well... you're documenting your ideas & writing code at the same
   time and when you've finished, you just run the whole thing through
   some converter/filter and it'll churn out pure code on the one hand
   and typesetted documentation for you designs on the other hand.

This sounds like what Knuth did with TeX: It was written in Web, a
dialect of Pascal.  Depending upon whether you ran the source through
Tangle or Weave, you got Pascal or TeX source out the back, suitable
to be fed to the appropriate compiler.