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Re: Is Literate Programming just for the academics?

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From: Rob Hasker
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 04:40
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barry@reed.edu (Barry Smith) writes:

>>isn't very much. So:
>> - Is Literate Programming only for the academics?
>> - If it is: Are there any experiences with LARGE programs?
>
>Well, Textures (our TeX for the Macintosh) is a Web program,
>perhaps 50,000 lines or so.  No judgement offered as to its
>"literacy", but we find Web a very useful structuring tool.

I think 50k lines only rates as "large" as opposed to "LARGE". 1/2 :-)
LARGE would mean hundreds of thousands of lines by today's standards.

Rob
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From: hasker@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Rob Hasker)
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Subject: Re: Is Literate Programming just for the academics?
Keywords: WEB, Literate Programming
Message-ID: <1992Sep11.044012.30871@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Date: 11 Sep 92 04:40:12 GMT
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Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
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