On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:

> On 20000927T115028+0100, Jerzy Karczmarczuk wrote:
> It's useful only for writing Pascal, so yes, it's essentially dead.
> TeX seems to be (one of?) the only thing(s) still using it.
> 
> However, it's descendant, CWEB by Knuth and Levy (iirc), is still used.
> But unfortunately it's bound to the C language.

Unfortunately the last time I looked at CWEB it still had the same idea
about identifiers as WEB itself, namely that if they match textually
they are the same, which makes the automatic indexes produced less useful
for C++: I've got twelve classes all with a `read()' method plus any in
the standard libraries and lumping them all together is less than
optimal. I'd imagine the same problem would occur for haskell with type
class members. Of course, solving this would require at least
type-deduction info to be passed to the literate programming system, which
is why I'm a little sceptical of the language independent implementations
of literate programming. (Of course, the indexes only matter if like me
you prefer reading hardcopy or work on trains, etc.)

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