Re: [xep-support] MathML support

From: Werner Donné (werner.donne@re.be)
Date: Mon Oct 11 2004 - 08:50:36 PDT

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    I couldn't agree more. Remember TeX was written in WEB, according to
    the "Literate Programming Paradigm", which was introduced by Donald Knuth.
    A WEB source file contains the code as well as the documentation of the
    code. The idea was to write a programme as if it were a book. TeX is the
    main example of that paradigm.

    You would extract the code and the documentation from a WEB file with
    TANGLE and WEAVE. The nice thing is that the TeX code documentation is
    processed by TeX itself.

    Those ideas are twenty years old, but I find them still to be very modern.
    See also http://www.literateprogramming.com/.

    Werner.

    Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
    > Jim Melton wrote:
    >
    >>> ...after all, you can
    >>> read the entire source code of TeX...
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >> Now, there's a statement that needs a smiley if I ever saw one!
    >>
    > maybe. but can you think of any program with source code you could
    > read more easily? the source of TeX is small, by todays standards,
    > available in nicely printed books in the shop, is well documented and
    > cross-referenced, acknowledged to be bug free for all intents and purposes,
    > and written by one of the foremost authorities on computer programming.
    > *I* can't understand it, but I'm not a professional programmer.
    >
    > Sebastian
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