From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gregory Heytings Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Quote by Knuth Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2021 08:42:58 +0000 Message-ID: <94de128df184fd130038@heytings.org> References: <20210705154121.GB6395@tuxteam.de> <878s2j2onn.fsf@zoho.eu> <87r1gbdr6d.fsf@zoho.eu> <877dhsfrxs.fsf@zoho.eu> <87eebv6zid.fsf@zoho.eu> <20210719070707.GA2832@tuxteam.de> <87lf60e1es.fsf@zoho.eu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="21712"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Emanuel Berg Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 21 10:50:25 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1m67vs-0005Rk-RH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 21 Jul 2021 10:50:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46602 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m67vr-00069q-Ee for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 21 Jul 2021 04:50:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:33514) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m67ol-00010Z-Dq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Jul 2021 04:43:03 -0400 Original-Received: from heytings.org ([95.142.160.155]:50316) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m67oj-0005bu-7B for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Jul 2021 04:43:03 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=heytings.org; s=20210101; t=1626856979; bh=LO6lV2rVQ8ONZL6PAK2p2tGRbSUH7u9fEL6Wf95OQ7U=; h=Date:From:To:cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:Message-ID:References:From; b=pA1TMnhfK2gGYsBvNYzd26fC4shWMdFPYsHHb2+9fVUt9KW6vT25kMeHQSpOCNUYA mzVCxPWEc1aFDFnpnfZppl7+NRzjw7uNvmu+w25Ifn/NLty9KjkmhhASBayABKoC+H 5yjZIXx9no0lGTJuz3twfeR2BjGoZQKy9hugZ2QuaT0nEgs4OFCiFGw9+WmcwHjsAJ 8oz4I2XIjstxl41z0bafF4yEgrWFg8lVr/Q3lRaLjlKuo8zz5Ir7p/XrIVmQaWjKED ewLA5yLNG8exxHwcFS/bsLal0q6NZ8ii+yBqRSn+q2N2zPI2pHP8/3YkVkgXE8JqGq jpTErL989ArSQ== In-Reply-To: <87lf60e1es.fsf@zoho.eu> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=95.142.160.155; envelope-from=gregory@heytings.org; helo=heytings.org X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:131929 Archived-At: >> "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 $ tex.p $ ./tex * AFAIK currently no Pascal compiler can compile the original, unmodified TeX Pascal code