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From: tml@hemuli.tik.vtt.fi (Tor Lillqvist)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Info on WEB?
Message-ID: <4543@hemuli.tik.vtt.fi>
Date: 21 Feb 90 05:43:41 GMT
References: <20574@netnews.upenn.edu> <1990Feb20.023207.13529@cs.rochester.edu> <3460@tukki.jyu.fi>
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In article <3460@tukki.jyu.fi> suhonen@tukki.jyu.fi (Timo Suhonen) writes:
>In article <1990Feb20.023207.13529@cs.rochester.edu> ken@cs.rochester.edu writes:
><WEB is an enhanced Pascal created by Knuth to ameliorate programming in
><Pascal. It also has constructs to allow code and documentation to be
>There is also program WEB2C that translates WEB to C code. The code is
>much more portable than the Pascal code... 

(Actually web2c translates Pascal to C.)  There is also a free
Pascal-to-C translator which is better than the web2c system (which,
after all, is a bit of a hack).  The translator, ptc, was posted to
the net some years ago.  I have made some enhancements to it, and
could make it available for ftp if there is interest.  I have used it
to compile TeX 2.93 et al. successfully (don't yet ask about 2.9993).
-- 
Tor Lillqvist,
working, but not speaking, for the Technical Research Centre of Finland