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000048_icon-group-sender _Wed Apr 28 19:15:54 1993.msg
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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Sun, 2 May 1993 16:53:14 MST
Date: 28 Apr 93 19:15:54 GMT
From: cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!not-for-mail@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Lewis Perin)
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Subject: Re: OS/2 & Icon (was Lack of robustness in 32-bit DOS version)
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plyon@emx.cc.utexas.edu (Paul Lyon) writes:
> Well, since I may be the only OS/2 user of Icon there is (or so I
> sometimes imagine, at least :-)
There are two of us, Paul. I seem to be as happy with my "poor man's
SPARCstation as you are.
> As for utilities, provided one has ftp access, one can get [...] serveral
> literate programming tools (FunnelWeb, Cweb, and SpiderWeb).
Perhaps you're unaware of yet another literate programming tool called
noweb, which is available over the net much the same way as the others you
mention. It's *very* well suited to Icon - it's what I use for my Icon code
- and interestingly enough, it's partly written *in* Icon. Having used a
few of the repertory of LP tools, I can say that noweb is by far the
simplest of those I've tried.
This isn't a newsgroup for literate programming, so I won't rant on, but
since I'm on the subject allow me to raise an LP-related issue in Icon
that's nagged at me for a while. It would be much easier to debug a
literate Icon program if the language had a locution akin to the C #line
preprocessor directive, i.e. a way of identifying from where in which source
file a given chunk of code came. (Since Icon is so well suited for text
processing, and since code is text, this might also assist in debugging
programs automatically transformed by Icon programs, all literacy aside.)
Does anyone else care about this?
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