Web

WEB is a computer programming system created by

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Donald Knuth as the first implementation of what he called

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"literate programming": the idea that one could create

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software as works of literature, by embedding bits of code

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inside descriptive text, rather than the reverse as is common

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practice in most programming languages.

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The WEB system consisted of two primary programs: tangle,

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which produced compilable Pascal

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code from the source texts, and weave, which produced

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nicely-formatted printable documentation using TeX.

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A newer version of WEB is CWEB.

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