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{{Two other uses|the computer programming system|the [[Bible translation]]|World English Bible||web (disambiguation){{!}}web (disambiguation)}}

'''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.