[HN Gopher] The CWEB System of Structured Documentation
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       The CWEB System of Structured Documentation
        
       Author : weeber
       Score  : 37 points
       Date   : 2023-11-16 16:39 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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       | pcblues wrote:
       | I studied CWEB when I did computer science in the early 1990s
       | (eek!).
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       | 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.
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       | 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.
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       | https://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/noweb/
        
         | groos wrote:
         | Fraser and Hanson wrote a compiler as a book, using noweb:
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         | https://a.co/d/4ctR3vW
        
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