From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
Subject: Re: Literate Programming in Ada, AdaDoc, AdaBrowse
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 00:42:33 +0000 (UTC)
Date: 2004-10-12T00:42:33+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ckf99p$8fr$1@a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: x7vacuu34u1.fsf@smaug.pushface.org
Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> wrote:
: Nick Roberts <nick.roberts@acm.org> writes:
:
:> 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.
:
: The way the Pascal code was compiled to produce TeX was using a
: special Pascal-to-C converter!
The tex.web sources speak of a Pascal compiler
"that was available to the author in 1982."
(Yes, there are systems that compile WEB (Pascal) to C.)
This seems to have been an intention:
"a conscious effort has been made here to avoid using several idiosyncratic
features of standard \PASCAL\ itself, so that most of the code can be
translated mechanically into other high-level languages."
: I don't see any point in reworking that
: part of it.
There is an Ada 83 WEB version.
ftp://ftp.ctan.org/tex-archive/web/ada/aweb/aweb.pro
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Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-09 17:44 Literate Programming in Ada, AdaDoc, AdaBrowse Nick Roberts
2004-10-09 18:39 ` Wes Groleau
2004-10-09 21:04 ` Nick Roberts
2004-10-09 21:39 ` stephane richard
2004-10-09 23:40 ` Wes Groleau
2004-10-10 16:39 ` Simon Wright
2004-10-12 0:42 ` Georg Bauhaus [this message]
2004-10-11 7:33 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2004-10-09 19:21 ` Pascal Obry
2004-10-09 21:47 ` Nick Roberts
2004-10-09 23:20 ` Björn Persson
2004-10-10 8:28 ` Oliver Kellogg
2004-10-10 10:03 ` Björn Persson
2004-10-10 15:27 ` Stephen Leake
2004-10-09 23:49 ` Wes Groleau
2004-10-10 10:36 ` Pascal Obry
2004-10-10 11:26 ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-10-18 8:17 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2004-10-18 11:15 ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-10-18 12:46 ` Björn Persson
2004-10-18 15:39 ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-10-18 13:47 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2004-10-09 22:54 ` Lionel Draghi
2004-10-09 22:56 ` Björn Persson
2004-10-09 23:55 ` Wes Groleau
2004-10-10 1:02 ` Björn Persson
2004-10-10 14:02 ` Wes Groleau
2004-10-10 3:29 ` Steve
2004-10-10 14:08 ` Wes Groleau
2004-10-10 15:06 ` Steve
2004-10-10 15:20 ` Stephen Leake
[not found] ` <rlsfz4jdjuj.fsf@jacob.crs4.it>
2004-10-15 13:33 ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-10-16 1:50 ` Steve
2004-10-16 19:46 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2004-10-17 3:46 ` Steve
2004-10-10 8:21 ` Stephane Riviere
2004-10-11 23:02 ` Björn Persson
2004-10-11 23:31 ` Missing features in NaturalAdaBrowseDoc Lionel Draghi
2004-10-12 0:14 ` tmoran
2004-10-12 12:58 ` Marc A. Criley
2004-10-12 21:20 ` Lionel Draghi
2004-10-12 17:49 ` Stephane Riviere
[not found] ` <416c48a7$0$28918$636a15ce@news.free.fr>
2004-10-12 21:18 ` Lionel Draghi
2004-10-13 16:38 ` Stephane Riviere
2004-10-14 19:56 ` Lionel Draghi
2004-10-15 16:59 ` Stephane Riviere
2004-10-12 17:29 ` Literate Programming in Ada, AdaDoc, AdaBrowse Stephane Riviere
2004-10-10 9:34 ` Andre
2004-10-10 15:24 ` Stephen Leake
2004-10-10 18:04 ` Andre
2004-10-11 23:32 ` Lionel Draghi
2004-10-12 0:13 ` Björn Persson
2004-10-10 15:13 ` Stephen Leake
2004-10-11 20:28 ` Nick Roberts
2004-10-11 22:26 ` Björn Persson
2004-10-12 14:09 ` Nick Roberts
2004-10-13 5:01 ` Pylinius
2004-10-13 16:06 ` Nick Roberts
2004-10-13 17:17 ` Pascal Obry
2004-10-17 18:47 ` Bernhard Mulder
2004-10-18 18:06 ` Nick Roberts
2004-10-19 4:41 ` Bernhard Mulder
2004-10-19 9:52 ` Peter Hermann
2004-10-19 10:01 ` Nick Roberts
2004-10-23 21:39 ` Bernhard Mulder
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