Tim, You wrote:
> ... > Bill Page wrote: > > Really, this script is not so hard to understand is it? > > yes, it is. really. it just reads as line noise to me. for > example, the variable 'uses' is not defined anywhere. nor > is 'defns'. what exactly is it trying to iterate over and > where does the data come from? This is part of noweb. It would help a lot if you would bother to read the noweb documentation: http://www.literateprogramming.com/noweb_hacker.pdf This was written by the author of noweb so I do expect that he had literate programming in mind. > this is all probably apparent to a sed/awk/shell > programmer but the point of literate programming is to make it > apparent to those people who need to maintain it. if i can't > understand it without learning 3 new languages then the next > person who needs to maintain it might not understand it either. > > the fact that you understand a scripting language does not > make it the least bit transparent to me. > Get serious! awk is a standard unix tool and is part of every linux distribution. It has been around for at least as long the C programming language. We make no attempt to explain C programming or even lisp programming to anyone, so why should we need to explain awk? Regards, Bill Page. _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
