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From: cotner@brahms.berkeley.edu (Carl Cotner)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: What is Literate Programming?
Keywords: Literate programming WEB Knuth
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Date: 12 Jan 90 02:10:06 GMT
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Does anyone have any information about Donald Knuth's Literate 
Programming concept.  Is this explained in his books, The Art of 
Computer Programming?  I'm only aware of Knuth through TeX.  I
believe that TeX is stored in a web file, which combines source code
with documentation, in accordance with his belief that the 2 should be 
closely integrated.

I'm very interested in this.  I would look into web, only I believe that
web will extract a Pascal file.  I'm more interested in working on a
C based project.  Is there a C version of WEB?

If someone can enlighten me by providing me with more details on web,
on Literate Programming, and on how I can accomplish my tasks in C,
I'd be grateful.

Thanks

Carl
cotner@brahms.Berkeley.EDU

ucbvax!brahms!cotner	           Carl Cotner/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720