Re: [Axiom-developer] Literate Programming -- Knuth interview

2011-11-18 Thread daly
On Fri, 2011-11-18 at 20:24 -0800, C Y wrote: > Tim, > > > > That's quite an interesting example! Is there a license on it? I can > see that being useful in a lot of scenarios as an introduction to the > idea of literate programming. > > > Cheers, > CY > License? Nope. You have my permis

Re: [Axiom-developer] Literate Programming -- Knuth interview

2011-11-18 Thread C Y
Tim, That's quite an interesting example!  Is there a license on it?  I can see that being useful in a lot of scenarios as an introduction to the idea of literate programming. Cheers, CY From: daly To: su...@attglobal.net Cc: axiom-Developer Sent: Frid

Re: [Axiom-developer] Literate Programming -- Knuth interview

2011-11-18 Thread daly
I just wrote an example of a literate program using HTML syntax. There is a professor at Dartmouth who is willing to talk to the class about it but found Knuth's version too confusing. See http://axiom-developer.org/axiom-website/litprog.html In my opinion Knuth made the mistake of showing his ma

Re: [Axiom-developer] Literate Programming -- Knuth interview

2011-11-18 Thread Eugene Surowitz
I was just at BICA2011 and they both record the talks and are actually creating DVDs along with the collected slides. (They sold last year's DVDs at this years conference.) Some are talks are on the web site. I'm thinking along the line of a "text crawler" complemented by a relational data base