Re: [9fans] noweb and literal programming

[Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.sykora@gmail.com>]

> 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.

As far as I can tell, cweb (ctangle, cweave) is the original Knuth's
web language adjusted for the C language (the very original was
written to work with pascal).
These 'ful-featured' webs didn't succeed, people found it somewhat complicated.
In contrast, noweb tried to be simpler, with no tight connection to
the language used (any language can be used) and no tight connection
to the formatter. It has less features but this can be considered an
advantage.

Ruda