The CWEB System of Structured Documentation, Version 3.0

by Donald Ervin Knuth, Silvio Levy

WEB is a software system that facilitates the creation of readable programs. It was originally developed by Donald E. Knuth as he programmed the TEX typesetting system. Users of WEB are able to write programs of superior quality; produce state-of-the-art documentation; greatly reduce debugging time and maintain programs easily as conditions change.
CWEB is a version of WEB for documenting C and C++ programs. WEB was adapted to C by Silvio Levy in 1987, and since then both Knuth and Levy have revised and enhanced the system in many ways, notably to support C++ and ANSI C. Thus CWEB combines TEX with two of today's most widely used professional programming languages.
This book is the definitive user's guide and reference manual for the CWEB system. The CWEB software itself is freely available via anonymous ftp from labrea.stanford.edu on the Internet.

Paperback

Published January 1, 1994

About the author

Donald Ervin Knuth, born January 10th 1938, is a renowned computer scientist and Professor Emeritus of the Art of Computer Programming at Stanford University.

Author of the seminal multi-volume work The Art of Computer Programming ("TAOCP"), Knuth has been called the "father" of the analysis of algorithms, contributing to the development of, and systematizing formal mathematical techniques for, the rigorous analysis of the computational complexity of algorithms, and in the process popularizing asymptotic notation.

In addition to fundamental contributions in several branches of theoretical computer science, Knuth is the creator of the TeX computer typesetting system, the related METAFONT font definition language and rendering system, and the Computer Modern family of typefaces.

A prolific writer and scholar, Knuth created the WEB/CWEB computer programming systems designed to encourage and facilitate literate programming, and designed the MMIX instruction set architecture.