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From: Nick Roberts <nick.roberts@acm.org>
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Subject: Re: Literate Programming in Ada, AdaDoc, AdaBrowse
Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2004 22:04:36 +0100
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Wes Groleau wrote:
> Were the original "tangle" "web" and "weave" open source?
> 
> I think they were in Pascal.  Should be easy to convert to
> Ada and modify some of the details in the process.

Well, yes, but that doesn't address the problem I mentioned, that have to 
run the tangle program evry time between changing the source code (even 
slightly) and recompiling and running.

Since (as I understand it) tangling involves reading and interpreting /all/ 
the web files of the project, and regenerating /all/ the source code files 
(obviously, there may be hundreds), it just isn't a practical proposition 
for software development.

-- 
Nick Roberts