On Mon, 20 May 2013 15:02:08 +0200, Stefan Drees <ste...@drees.name> wrote: > On 20.05.13 14:37, Serhiy Storchaka wrote: > > 20.05.13 01:33, Benjamin Peterson напиÑав(ла): > >> 2013/5/19 Demian Brecht <demianbre...@gmail.com>: > >>> It seems like external docs is standard throughout the stdlib. Is > >>> there an actual reason for this? > >> ernal > >> One is legacy. It certainly wasn't possible with the old LaTeX doc > >> system. > > > > Do you know that TeX itself written using a "literate programming". TeX > > binary and the TeXbook are compiled from the same source. > > Separation of concerns and DRY - tension rising: > > Who wants to tangle and weave? Anyone :-?)
I loved that concept so much when I first encountered it that I subsequently wrote systems (in REXX :) for doing something similar on two big projects I worked in my IBM mainframe days (one of them using SGML, if anyone remembers when there were actual source-to-printed-document systems for SGML). I guess I pretty much forgot about it when I moved to unix, but I suppose it is one of the reasons I do like doctest. A quick google tells me there are some links I should check out :) --David
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