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Macro-based programming language

Web, traditionally styled WEB, is a computer programming system created by Donald Knuth as the first implementation of what he called "literate programming": his idea that one could create software as works of literature, by embedding source code in descriptive text, rather than the reverse. Unlike standard programming practice which relegates documentation to comments, the WEB approach is to write an article to document the making of the source code, and to include all the source code in that article, so as to be compilable therefrom. Wikipedia →

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

  1. Read the overview: Web (programming system)A 5-minute orientation
  2. Skim a recent paper: Application Programming Interface (API) And Management of Web-Based Accounting Information System (AIS): Security of Transaction Processing System, General Ledger and Financial Reporting SystemInfluential work since 2022
  3. Pick up a classic book: Advances in Computers, Volume 49 (Advances in Computers)The most-reprinted book on the subject
  4. Read the landmark paper: Mooshak: a Web‐based multi‐site programming contest systemCited 86 times
  5. Go sideways: Literate programmingA closely related topic
  6. Go sideways: TeXA closely related topic

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