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In article <840556544snz@dsl.co.uk>
           bhk@dsl.co.uk "Brian {Hamilton Kelly}" wrote:

>There *is* a programming methodology that can produce elegant,
>maintainable code, and yet be as efficient as you can make it, along with
>a level of productivity (counted as lines of fully debugged code) that's
>higher than writing in plain C.  This is CWeb, an updating of Prof.
>Donald Knuth's concept of "Literate Programming".

Is this a development of the TeX idea?  As I remember it that came from
the same concept, having an embedded mixture of code and documentation.

>Niel Kempson and I did some work using CWeb a few years ago and were
>churning out 5 times as much fully-debugged code as were those others
>that were using ordinary C.

How about C++?  The 'elegance' I was talking about was mainly aimed at
things like C++ classes, which can result in very elegant code which is
easy to debug and maintain but also has a tendency to produce massive
executables.

>(I've even toyed with the idea of rewriting KA9Q in CWeb, but quickly
>suppressed the thought!)

Presumably the rewriting put you off rathe than the CWeb...

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