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Literate Programming
Abstract
The author and his associates have been experimenting for the past several years with a programming language and documentation system called WEB. This paper presents WEB by example, and discusses why the new system appears to be an improvement over previous ones.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Knuth, D. E.
- Venue
- The Computer Journal
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 1984-02-01
- Volume
- 27
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 97-111
- ISSN
- 0010-4620 (ISSN-L)
- 1460-2067
- OpenAlex
- W2342082360
- Cited by
- 1,467
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 8.28
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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