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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' and
the mailing list <litprog@shsu.edu> are devoted to this subject; they
are gatewayed to each other.)

  WEB-like languages have been implemented with many pairs of base
languages: Cweb provides C and Troff (Note: 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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