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From: "Laurent Gasser (CSCS)" <lgasser@cscs.ch>
Subject: Re: Looking for AWEB; TeX in Ada?
Date: 1999/03/17
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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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