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'''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 source code inside descriptive text, rather than the reverse (as is common practice in most programming languages).

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 source codedocumentation using [[TeX]].

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