[HN Gopher] The CWEB System of Structured Documentation ___________________________________________________________________ The CWEB System of Structured Documentation Author : weeber Score : 37 points Date : 2023-11-16 16:39 UTC (6 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu) (TXT) w3m dump (www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu) | pcblues wrote: | I studied CWEB when I did computer science in the early 1990s | (eek!). | | While it is a way to document and compile your programs from a | single file, it still contains the problem of where the story of | a program should happen, and in keeping the documentation and | code in line and up to date with each other. | | It should also be understood that the documentation is for other | programmers and not users, since the printout of the document | includes the code in-line. | moomin wrote: | See also NOWEB, a system that developed the ideas of CWEB. Wrote | my dissertation using it. | | https://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/noweb/ | groos wrote: | Fraser and Hanson wrote a compiler as a book, using noweb: | | https://a.co/d/4ctR3vW ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-11-16 23:00 UTC)