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''For other uses, see [[web]].''

'''WEB''' is a [[computer programming]] system created by [[Donald Knuth]] as the first implementation of what he called "[[literate programming]]": the idea that one could create [[software]] as works of [[literature]], by embedding bits ofsource code inside descriptive text, rather than the reverse (as is common practice in most programming languages).

The WEB system 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 source code using [[TeX]].

A[[CWEB]] is a newer version of WEB isfor the [[CWEBC programming language]].

==Reference==

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

==External linkslink==

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

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