cweb mit Homebrew installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Repository
• Paketmanager-Seite

Befehle und Aliase

• ctangle
• cweave

Projektgeschichte

Knuth's official page explains that WEB originated while he wrote TeX, and that Silvio Levy adapted WEB to C in 1987. Knuth and Levy then revised and enhanced CWEB, including support for C++, ANSI C, and later Java-oriented use.

Adoptionsgeschichte

CWEB has stayed relevant less as a mass-market build tool than as a durable literate-programming reference implementation. The current GitHub project describes several decades of accumulated experience and treats the repository partly as software archaeology for original Levy/Knuth releases.

Wie es verwendet wird

CWEB authors write .w files that mix explanation, TeX markup, and program fragments. ctangle extracts compilable source, while cweave produces typeset documentation for humans.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

For package nerds, CWEB is a bridge between TeX culture and systems programming: it packages a historically important programming methodology, a stable pair of classic command-line tools, and a living archive of CWEB releases.

Zeitleiste

• 1987: Silvio Levy adapts WEB to C.
• 1993: Knuth and Levy publish The CWEB System of Structured Documentation.
• 2001: Third printing documents version 3.6 with hypertext extensions.
• The ascherer/cweb repository carries release records and archival material.

Related projects

• CWEB is related to WEB, TeX, CTANGLE, CWEAVE, CTWILL, TeX Live, and other literate-programming environments.

Quellen

• https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/cweb.html
• https://github.com/ascherer/cweb
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ascherer/cweb/master/README.md
• https://github.com/ascherer/cweb/releases