From: "J.R. Mauro" <jrm8005@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] noweb and literal programming
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:50:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3aaafc130904101650n3d5e237fp3b75955aad2f8727@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a560a5d00904101539g3d808b92mcbb442284c1bb069@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 6:39 PM, Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.sykora@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've been thinking about 'well documented programs' and come across
> the 'noweb' program.
> Do you have any experience with literal programming and, particularly, noweb?
> (I noticed at least rsc seems to have played with it back in the year
> 2000. He programmed some scripts to use the system in Plan9...)
>
> Thanks
> Ruda
>
Just curious... what's the relation to Cweb and Ctangle (the ones Knuth uses)?
>From what I've heard of those (even from Knuth himself) is that
they're too ugly to use very much, and fits well with Knuth's style,
which is mostly the "giant blob of code" style.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-10 23:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-10 22:39 Rudolf Sykora
2009-04-10 23:50 ` J.R. Mauro [this message]
2009-04-11 14:53 ` Rudolf Sykora
2009-04-11 15:07 ` tlaronde
2009-04-11 18:29 ` Robert Raschke
2009-04-11 23:28 ` Russ Cox
2009-04-17 13:07 ` Aharon Robbins
2009-04-11 0:48 Chad Brown
2009-04-11 7:28 Francisco J Ballesteros
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