[petsc-dev] [DocTip!] #2: Aiming for self-updating docs

[Barry Smith]

  If we were all as smart as Knuth the community could have followed through with his idea and iteratively developed an extremely powerful set of tools, sadly we are not.

> On Nov 8, 2021, at 2:23 PM, Mark Adams <mfadams at lbl.gov> wrote:
> 
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> For those who love literate programming and fortran, PPPL developed this
> in the 80's:
> https://w3.pppl.gov/~krommes/fweb.html <https://w3.pppl.gov/~krommes/fweb.html>
> and I believe it is still maintained.
> 
> I've been working with PPPL people 15+ years and have not seen a code that uses it.
> However I did once get caught by a crazy, brilliant but crazy, Russian at PPPL that yammered on to me about a Latex programming language, that sounded insane but that may have been the delivery, that may very well have been this project.
> I am sure it is dead.

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