Re: Large Literate Programs

From	"Aaron W. Hsu" <arcfide@sacrideo.us>
Newsgroups	comp.programming.literate
Subject	Re: Large Literate Programs
Date	2011-10-11 12:22 -0400
Organization	Indiana University
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On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 22:13:16 -0400, Palo Vlcek <pavol.vlcek@gmail.com>  
wrote:

> On 8. Okt, 08:27 h., "Aaron W. Hsu" <arcf...@sacrideo.us> wrote:
>> On Fri, 07 Oct 2011 23:54:57 -0400, Ben Pfaff <b...@cs.stanford.edu>  
>> wrote:
>> > It's a large book but I'm not sure that it's a large program.
>> > There's less than 25,000 lines of code and some of that is
>> > mechanically generated by macro substitution.
>>
>> Answering my own question, the tangled source for TeX seems to be  
>> around 7000 lines of compressed Pascal? I imagine that if it were  
>> written normally that would be closer to 8000 or 9000. My ChezWEB LP  
>> system is about 45 pages of woven output, and about 700 lines of  
>> formatted Scheme  code. That seems to line up with the line count to  
>> page ratio in TeX, too

Sorry, I didn't see any body for this message other than quotes?

	Aaron W. Hsu

-- 
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    Re: [?] Re: Large Literate Programs "Aaron W. Hsu" <arcfide@sacrideo.us> - 2011-10-07 14:47 -0400
    Re: [?] Re: Large Literate Programs blp@cs.stanford.edu (Ben Pfaff) - 2011-10-07 23:54 -0400
      Re: [?] Re: Large Literate Programs "Aaron W. Hsu" <arcfide@sacrideo.us> - 2011-10-08 02:07 -0400
      Re: Large Literate Programs "Aaron W. Hsu" <arcfide@sacrideo.us> - 2011-10-08 02:27 -0400
        Re: Large Literate Programs Palo Vlcek <pavol.vlcek@gmail.com> - 2011-10-10 22:13 -0400
          Re: Large Literate Programs "Aaron W. Hsu" <arcfide@sacrideo.us> - 2011-10-11 12:22 -0400
            Re: Large Literate Programs Palo Vlcek <pavol.vlcek@gmail.com> - 2011-10-12 01:57 -0400
              Re: Large Literate Programs "Aaron W. Hsu" <arcfide@sacrideo.us> - 2011-10-12 16:52 -0400
      Re: [?] Re: Large Literate Programs Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> - 2011-10-10 21:38 -0400
        Re: [?] Re: Large Literate Programs "Aaron W. Hsu" <arcfide@sacrideo.us> - 2011-10-11 13:32 -0400
        Re: [?] Re: Large Literate Programs Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu> - 2011-10-13 18:36 -0400
          Re: [?] Re: Large Literate Programs Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> - 2011-10-14 03:47 -0400
          Re: Large Literate Programs dtopham <dtopham@gmail.com> - 2011-10-14 18:12 -0400
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