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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.

WEB consists of two primary programs: TANGLE, which produces compilable [[Pascal programming language|Pascal]] code from the source texts, and WEAVE, which produces nicely-formatted, printable documentation using [[TeX]].

[[CWEB]] is a newer version of WEB for the [[C (programming language)|C programming language]].

The most significant programs written in WEB are [[TeX]] and [[metafont]]. Modern TeX distributions use another program [[Web2C]] to convert the TeX program to C.

==References==

* Donald E. Knuth, ''Literate Programming'', Stanford, California: Center for the Study of Language and Information, 1992, CSLI Lecture Notes, no. 27.

==External links==

*[http://sunburn.stanford.edu/~knuth/cweb.html CWEB homepage]

[[Category:Free documentation generators]]

[[Category:TeX]]

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[[de:WEB]]

[[ko:웹 (프로그래밍)]]

[[ja:WEB]]

[[sv:WEB]]

[[vi:WEB]]'''