Re: Quote by Knuth

[Gregory Heytings]

> > "Literate programming" is a pretty generic term. The most you can say 
> > about it is that it tries to combine "writing for humans" 
> > ("literature") and "writing for machines" ("programming")
>
> It is a poetic idea, but in practice how could one ever do that?

$ wget http://tug.ctan.org/systems/knuth/dist/tex/tex.web
$ weave tex.web
$ ./tex tex.tex
$ xdvi tex.dvi

$ tangle tex.web
$ <Pascal compiler*> tex.p
$ ./tex

* AFAIK currently no Pascal compiler can compile the original, unmodified 
TeX Pascal code