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 9 WEB: Literate programming
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 "WEB" languages allow you to write a single source file that can produce
 both a compilable program and a well-formatted document describing the
 program in as much detail as you wish to prepare.  Writing in this kind
 of dual-purpose language is called "literate programming".  (The Usenet
 newsgroup 'comp.programming.literate' is devoted to this subject.)
 
    WEB-like languages have been implemented with many pairs of base
 languages: Cweb provides C and Troff (⇒References); CWEB provides
 C and TeX ('CTAN:/web/c_cpp/cweb'); Spiderweb provides C, C++, Awk, Ada,
 many others, and TeX ('CTAN:/web/spiderweb'); and, of course, the
 original WEB provides Pascal and TeX, the implementation languages for
 the original TeX, Metafont, MetaPost, and related programs to come from
 the TeX project at Stanford.
 
    The original WEB language is documented in the file 'webman.tex',
 which is included in the <ftp://ftp.tug.org/tex/lib.tar.gz> archive (and
 available in many other places, of course).
 

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