Re: [Axiom-developer] NOWEB

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

"Page, Bill" <address@hidden> writes:

| On Thursday, May 04, 2006 12:01 PM Ralf Hemmecke wrote:
| > 
| > Tim, you complained about the speed of NOWEB...
| > 
| > Here a copy from noweb-2.11/src/INSTALL...
| > 
| > To build noweb:
| > 
| >    1) First point to compilers to be used to built the tools and
| >       library by setting these variables in the Makefile:
| >         CC         the name of an ANSI C compiler
| >         LIBSRC        'awk' or 'icon', depending on which library
| >       If you have Icon, use the Icon version of the noweb 
| >       library; this code speeds up noweave by a factor of 3.
| >       The Icon versions have fewer bugs and provide more filters
| >       (e.g., convert LaTeX to HTML in documentation chunks).
| >       Not all of the examples will work with the awk library.
| >       If you have an Icon compiler and believe it works, set
| >      `ICONC=iconc -f l' in the Makefile.  (Icon is freely
| >       available from the University of Arizona, but the compiler
| >       is no longer maintained.)
| >
| 
| I have installed Icon on the axiom-developer.org server and it
| seems like a nice neat little language ... but I am sure Tim
| will say: "Oh horrors, yet another programming language!" :)

And I will second him!

[Note: I have written small programs in Icon, and enjoyed 
"Graphics Programming in Icon" which you can get almost for free if
you in academia.]

-- Gaby