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Web (programming system)
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<p>Web, traditionally styled WEB, is a <a href="/facts/Computer_programming/QmSsFnu0">computer programming</a> system created by <a href="/facts/Donald_E._Knuth/GozNzDM6">Donald E. Knuth</a> as the first implementation of what he called "<a href="/facts/Literate_programming/TvPFfD8L">literate programming</a>": his idea that one could create <a href="/facts/Software/RP79lVSW">software</a> as works of <a href="/facts/Literature/CmUDxokU">literature</a>, by embedding <a href="/facts/Source_code/o9J6Jv23">source code</a> in descriptive text, rather than the reverse. Unlike standard programming practice which relegates documentation to comments, the WEB approach is to write an article to document the making of the source code, and to include all the source code in that article, so as to be compilable therefrom. </p>