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Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 09:31:18 +0100
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.dk.tfs.com>
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In message <15562.852536379@time.cdrom.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes:
>> Actually I wish there were something more tangible than web/tangle
>> to ease the documentation/source problem, but that aside...
>
>Well, funny that, 'cause I was in fact tempted to cite Knuth's
>Tangle/Weave environment as another example of someone taking the
>right general approach to solving this problem at a higher level of
>sophistication, and why didn't the C community ever try to evolve
>something similar for itself, but then I thought: "Naah!" :-)

I actually spent considerable time thinking (one geta an awfull
lot of time for that with a baby who will only burp on daddys
shoulder :-) about ways to include SGML or HTML into C code without
causing hiterto unknown eye-ailments to develop.

My conclusion was that this is only really feasible (for me at
least) with a folding editor like the gadget Inmos made for OCCAM
and the likes.

Basically something that would allow me to hide all the SGML/HTML
and make the code work, then let me expand it so I could update
the documentation.

Ohh well.  troff is not that bad either...  (just kidding!)

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