CWEB
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 |
This article contains embedded lists that may be better presented using prose. (February 2016) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) |
| Paradigm | Literate, imperative (procedural), structured |
|---|---|
| Designed by | Donald Knuth |
| Developer | Donald Knuth & Silvio Levy |
| First appeared | 1987 |
| Stable release |
3.67 / October 24, 2006
|
| Typing discipline | Static, weak, manifest, nominal |
| OS | Cross-platform (multi-platform) |
| License | Permissive free software |
| Filename extensions | .w |
| Website | www-cs-faculty |
| Influenced by | |
| WEB, TeX | |
| Influenced | |
| noweb | |
CWEB is a computer programming system created by Donald Knuth and Silvio Levy as a follow-up to Knuth's WEB literate programming system, using the C programming language (and to a lesser extent the C++ and Java programming languages) instead of Pascal.
Like WEB, it consists of two primary programs: CTANGLE, which produces compilable C code from the source texts, and CWEAVE, which produces nicely-formatted printable documentation using TeX.
Contents
Features[edit]
- Can enter manual TeX code as well as automatic.
- Make formatting of C code for pretty printing.
- Can define sections, and can contain documentation and codes, which can then be included into other sections.
- Write the header code and main C code in one file, and can reuse the same sections, and then it can be tangled into multiple files for compiling.
- Include files.
- Change files, which can be automatically merged into the code when compiling/printing.
- Produces index of identifiers and section names in the printout.
License[edit]
% This file is part of CWEB.
% This program by Silvio Levy and Donald E. Knuth
% is based on a program by Knuth.
% It is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY, express or implied.
% Version 3.64 --- January 2002
% Copyright (C) 1987,1990,1993,2000 Silvio Levy and Donald E. Knuth
% Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this
% document provided that the copyright notice and this permission notice
% are preserved on all copies.
% Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this
% document under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the
% entire resulting derived work is given a different name and distributed
% under the terms of a permission notice identical to this one.
See also[edit]
External links[edit]
 |
This programming-tool-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
