"Page, Bill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Thursday, May 04, 2006 12:01 PM Ralf Hemmecke wrote: | > | > Tim, you complained about the speed of NOWEB... | > | > Here a copy from noweb-2.11/src/INSTALL... | > | > To build noweb: | > | > 1) First point to compilers to be used to built the tools and | > library by setting these variables in the Makefile: | > CC the name of an ANSI C compiler | > LIBSRC 'awk' or 'icon', depending on which library | > If you have Icon, use the Icon version of the noweb | > library; this code speeds up noweave by a factor of 3. | > The Icon versions have fewer bugs and provide more filters | > (e.g., convert LaTeX to HTML in documentation chunks). | > Not all of the examples will work with the awk library. | > If you have an Icon compiler and believe it works, set | > `ICONC=iconc -f l' in the Makefile. (Icon is freely | > available from the University of Arizona, but the compiler | > is no longer maintained.) | > | | I have installed Icon on the axiom-developer.org server and it | seems like a nice neat little language ... but I am sure Tim | will say: "Oh horrors, yet another programming language!" :)
And I will second him! [Note: I have written small programs in Icon, and enjoyed "Graphics Programming in Icon" which you can get almost for free if you in academia.] -- Gaby _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
