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On Oct 13, 3:36 pm, Ben Pfaff <b...@cs.stanford.edu> wrote:
> Simon Wright <si...@pushface.org> writes:
>
> [quoting what I wrote in the libavl book]
>
> > This is from 'Reading the Code':
>
> >    A TexiWEB document is a C program that has been cut into sections,
> >    rearranged, and annotated, with the goal to make the program as a
> >    whole as comprehensible as possible to a reader who starts at the
> >    beginning and reads the entire program in order.
>
> > Do people in general find that LP is a way of documenting a program that
> > has already been (designed and) implemented rather than part of the
> > process of designing the program? I'd (naively) hoped for the latter!
>
> Maybe advanced practitioners do it the way that you prefer, but
> I'm too used to the way that I already write code, and so I wrote
> libavl the other way.  Also, the libavl book was an evolution of
> an existing library that had already been written in the ordinary
> way, so it was natural to me to write it that way.
>
> I was also implementing the TexiWEB language in parallel with
> writing libavl with it.
> --
> Ben Pfaffhttp://benpfaff.org

Ben, Is TexiWEB available for others to use? I couldn't find any links
to it on the internet--even on your homepage! -Dave

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