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Noweb
Noweb, stylised in lowercase as noweb, is a literate programming tool, created in 1989–1999 by Norman Foster Ramsey Jr., Norman Ramsey, and designed to be simple, easily extensible and language independent. As in WEB and CWEB, the main components of Noweb are two programs: "''notangle''", which extracts 'machine' source code from the source texts, and "''noweave''", which produces nicely-formatted printable documentation. Noweb supports TeX, LaTeX, HTML, and troff back ends and works with any programming language. Besides simplicity this is the main advantage over WEB, which needs different versions to support programming languages other than Pascal programming language, Pascal. (Thus the necessity of CWEB, which supports C (programming language), C and similar languages.) Noweb's input A Noweb input text contains program source code interleaved with documentation. It consists of so-called ''chunks'' that are either ''documentation chunks'' or ''code chunks''. A documentati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Literate Programming
Literate programming is a programming paradigm introduced in 1984 by Donald Knuth in which a computer program is given as an explanation of its logic in a natural language, such as English, interspersed (embedded) with snippets of macros and traditional source code, from which compilable source code can be generated. The approach is used in scientific computing and in data science routinely for reproducible research and open access purposes. Literate programming tools are used by millions of programmers today. The literate programming paradigm, as conceived by Donald Knuth, represents a move away from writing computer programs in the manner and order imposed by the computer, and instead gives programmers macros to develop programs in the order demanded by the logic and flow of their thoughts. Literate programs are written as an exposition of logic in more natural language in which macros are used to hide abstractions and traditional source code, more like the text of an essa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |