Re: Will the availability of browsers affect source code?

norman@flaubert.bellcore.com (Norman Ramsey)
Mon, 1 May 1995 01:28:59 GMT

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From: norman@flaubert.bellcore.com (Norman Ramsey)
Keywords: design
Organization: Bellcore, Morristown NJ
References: 95-04-175 95-04-207
Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 01:28:59 GMT

John D. Mitchell <johnm@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> wrote:
>[WWW browsers for code]
>seems to me to be a natural extension (well, maybe subset HTML isn't
>quite LaTeX :-) of the Knuth's "literate programming" idea. Rather than
>using noweb or somesuch one uses HTML in source language comments.


Actually, noweb supports HTML in interleaved documentation, and it
also comes with a simple but effective filter that converts LaTeX to
HTML within interleaved documentation.


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