From: "Laurent Gasser (CSCS)" <lgasser@cscs.ch>
Subject: Re: Looking for AWEB; TeX in Ada?
Date: 1999/03/17
Date: 1999-03-17T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <36eff718.0@pfaff.ethz.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7c8tir$nt0$1@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU
Nick Roberts wrote:
>
> Thanks Georg, I've managed to grab it. The problem now is that, although it
> is supplied as source code (Ada 83), it is supplied partially krunched (all
> unnecessary whitespace removed, all upper case, no comments, etc.), which is
> fine for compile-and-go, but nearly useless if someone wants to modify it
> (as I do).
Not being an expert in AWEB (or any of its language flavour) I remember
that Donald Knuth intended it to be used this way. You never change
the (krunched, hard to read) code, you never update the documentation.
You only write the mix of them both in AWEB, and automatically produce
from the same document both a compilable source code and the TEX-able
documentation.
Please correct me if I got Knuth's intent to synchronize code and
documentation wrong.
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Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-03-08 0:00 Looking for AWEB Nick Roberts
1999-03-10 0:00 ` Georg Bauhaus
1999-03-11 0:00 ` Looking for AWEB; TeX in Ada? Nick Roberts
1999-03-12 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-12 0:00 ` Sven Utcke
1999-03-15 0:00 ` Niklas Holsti
1999-03-15 0:00 ` Niklas Holsti
[not found] ` <7cooqo$mdf$1@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
1999-03-17 0:00 ` AWEB; Enhanced Document Encoding Mike Harrison
1999-03-17 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1999-03-18 0:00 ` Sven Utcke
1999-03-19 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-19 0:00 ` Sven Utcke
1999-03-22 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1999-03-22 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-22 0:00 ` Sven Utcke
1999-03-23 0:00 ` Sven Utcke
1999-04-10 0:00 ` Patrick Mérissert-Coffinières
1999-04-13 0:00 ` Martin Kew
1999-04-13 0:00 ` nospam!bob
1999-03-21 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1999-03-19 0:00 ` Laurent Gasser (CSCS)
1999-03-25 0:00 ` FREDERICK LONG
1999-03-17 0:00 ` Laurent Gasser (CSCS) [this message]
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