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From watmath!ljdickey Mon Dec 7 09:27:43 EST 1992
Article: 2185 of comp.lang.apl
Newsgroups: comp.lang.apl
Path: watmath!ljdickey
From: ljdickey@math.uwaterloo.ca (L.J. Dickey)
Subject: APLWEB and Literate Programming in APL
Message-ID: <Byw69E.MAJ@math.uwaterloo.ca>
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1992 13:46:24 GMT
Literate programming in APL
and APLWEB
A few years ago, Donald Knuth introduced WEB, a system for
presenting source code and documentation in a single document.
His scheme allows an author to give extended and copious notes
about the intention of the code, along with the code itself, in
a single document.
Most readers will have heard about TeX, the most famous example
of a successful product done this way, and I am sure that there
must be other programming products done with WEB, but I can not
name any others. Now, from the University of Bielefeld comes
APLWEB, a method for presenting APL code in a literate way.
With APLWEB exposition and code may be blended into a single
source document. Two tools, TANGLE and WEAVE, are provided,
which extract the APL executable code and produce TeX source,
respectively.
APLWEB is a means by which one may write an article or book,
and include along with it, in one place, the APL source for the
immediate execution lines and APL functions that accompany it.
The developer of APLWEB is Dr. Christoph von Basum, e-mail
<CvB@erasmus.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de>, who has written his Ph.D.
thesis about literate programming in APL. He is the author
of all the C-code and TeX-macros. The ccapl-font was designed
by students at the University of Bielefeld.
This work was communicated to us by Bernhard Strohmeier, whose
e-mail address is <bstrohmeier@erasmus.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de>.
Mr. Strohmeier is a Ph.D. student at the University of
Bielefeld, working under the supervision of Professor Peter
Naeve and Dr. Peter Wolf. Mr. Strohmeier is using APLWEB as a
tool to aid in the writing of his doctoral thesis about causal
networks.
The first English language release of this work works with IBM
APL2 and STSC APL and is now available by anonymous ftp at
watserv1.uwaterloo.ca (129.97.129.140) in the directory
languages/apl/aplweb. It is designed to run on IBM personal
computers.
Lee Dickey
1992-12-07
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Prof. Leroy J. Dickey, Faculty of Mathematics, U of Waterloo, Canada N2L 3G1
Internet: ljdickey@math.UWaterloo.ca
ljdickey@math.waterloo.edu
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