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'''Web''' is a [[computer programming]] system created by [[Donald E. Knuth]] as the first implementation of what he called "[[literate programming]]": the idea that one could create [[software]] as works of [[literature]], by embedding source code inside descriptive text, rather than the reverse (as is common practice in most [[programming languages]]), in an order that is convenient for exposition to human readers, rather than in the order demanded by the compiler.<ref>{{cite book |first = Donald E. |last=Knuth |author-link = Donald Knuth |title=Literate Programming |___location=Stanford, California |publisher=Center for the Study of Language and Information |year=1992 |series=CSLI Lecture Notes |volume=27 }}</ref>
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