Re: Will the availability of browsers affect source code?

preston@cs.rice.edu (Preston Briggs)
Sat, 29 Apr 1995 19:55:36 GMT

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From: preston@cs.rice.edu (Preston Briggs)
Keywords: design
Organization: Rice University
References: 95-04-175
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 1995 19:55:36 GMT

>With the availability of multiple cross plattform world wide web browsers
>will we see any impact on how programs are coded and commented? Will
>for instance people be putting links in to Gcc that would link directly to
>the man page for Gcc to explain the source code that processes the command
>line options? Will Authors put be disposed to distribute pictures with
>their source
>that explains for instance a particularly complex tree manipulation.
>[...]


When nice typesetting became generally available, Knuth had a similar
idea and called it "Literate Programming." Nowadays, there lots of
people exploring variations of the ideas, and a bundle of little tools
available. Some of these tools also generate HTML output for use with
Mosaic or whatever.


Check out the newsgroup comp.programming.literate
and perhaps


    author="Donald E. Knuth",
    title="Literate Programming",
    pages="97--111",
    journal="The Computer Journal",
    year="1984",
    month=may,
    volume=27,
    number=2


Preston Briggs
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