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In article <1992Sep10.152641.1878@informatik.uni-bremen.de>
ms@lehre23.informatik.Uni-Bremen.DE (Martin Schroeder) writes:
>I think Literate Programming is quite appealing, but as far as I know
> the only large literate programs are TeX and Metafont. 8 years after
> Knuth's article this isn't very much. So:
> - Is Literate Programming only for the academics?
> - If it is: Are there any experiences with LARGE programs?
> - If it is: Why?
> - If it is not: Are there any experiences with LARGE programs?
>Please answer via posting to this newsgroups (or via email, if you must).

Literate programming is NOT just for academics.  If you are interested
in learning more about literate programming or in practicing it yourself,
you should join the LITPROG e-mail mailing list.

The LITPROG mailing list is dedicated to discussions of literate
programming.  Topics include tools and techniques (e.g. "How can I
get CWEB to recognize function templates?"), experiences with
literate programming, bibliography of literate programming articles
and books (they are not all by DEK!), "philosophy" of literate
programming, and generally anything else that has to do with the
theory or practice of "computer programs as literature".  To join
the LITPROG mailing list, send a one-line message to the address
LISTSERV@SHSU.BITNET or LISTSERV@SHSU.EDU containing the line

  SUBSCRIBE LITPROG "Your Real Name In Quotes"

The LISTSERV program will extract your name from the SUBSCRIBE line
and your email address from the message header and add you to the
LITPROG list.  Your SUBSCRIBE request will be acknowledged with a
"Welcome to LITPROG" message that will tell you how to post, how to
get files from the archives, etc.  The list has nearly 200 members
who collectively use about a dozen literate programming tools (WEB,
FWEB, CWEB, c-no-web, NOWEB, Spidery WEB, LIPED, web-mode.el, ...)
and who are eager to promote literate programming!  A FAQ list and
bibliography for LITPROG is still in preparation (the list is only
about six weeks old!).

Hope this helps--
--Cameron Smith
  cameron@symcom.math.uiuc.edu

P.S. Perhaps information about LITPROG could be added to the c.t.t
     FAQ posting?  It is completely understandable that people who
     don't know about LITPROG should come to c.t.t to ask about
     literate programming, and I'm happy to promote LITPROG, but I've
     posted this same information about three times in the last two
     weeks and I'm reluctant to try the patience of the c.t.t readership
     with these repeated advertisements! :-)