CWEB

CWEB is a computer programming system created by Donald Knuth and Silvio Levy as a followup to Knuth's WEB literate programming system, using the C programming language (and to a lesser extent the C++ programming language) instead of Pascal.

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Like WEB, it consists of two primary programs: ctangle,

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which produces compilable C code from the source texts, and cweave, which produces nicely-formatted printable documentation using TeX.

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Computer programming: Computer programming (often simply programming) is the craft of implementing one or more interrelated abstract algorithms using a particular programming language to produce a concrete computer program. Programming has elements of art, science, mathematics, and engineering....

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