From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:50:09 -0400 Message-ID: <3aaafc130904101650n3d5e237fp3b75955aad2f8727@mail.gmail.com> From: "J.R. Mauro" To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] noweb and literal programming Topicbox-Message-UUID: d9fb5fac-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 6:39 PM, Rudolf Sykora 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.