1990's literate programming: this is the future! everyone will be writing software like this!
AGENTS.md
LP: oh no!
1990's literate programming: this is the future! everyone will be writing software like this!
AGENTS.md
LP: oh no!
Noweb is like #web and #cweb except is language-agnostic and very minimal. #Web being the Pascal-oriented system in which Knuth wrote his spaghetti code for TeX and Metafont, and #CWeb being a similar system for C.
(I once made a very minor contribution to cweb, btw. Support for ‘huge’ mode in Borland/Turbo C for MS-DOS.)
Another difference is noweb can go to multiple different pretty printers, at least these days.
Another round of discussion on this on HN:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31301777
and another appearance of @svat (@twitter) on a post about #DonaldKnuth, this time with a teaser:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31305177
#Knuth #LiterateProgramming #Unix #JonBentley #DougMcIlroy #BellLabs #Pipes #CWeb #TeX
“Donald Knuth Was Framed”, Hillel Wayne (https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/donald-knuth-was-framed/).
Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22406070
#Knuth #DonaldKnuth #LiterateProgramming #Cweb #Unix
PS: A wild @[email protected] appears.