X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["641" "Tue" "9" "February" "93" "09:07:47" "MST" "\"Jonathan M. Gilligan\"" "gilligan@CENTRAL.BLDRDOC.GOV" nil "14" "Makeindex reimplementation" "^Date:" nil nil "2"]) Return-Path: Received: from sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (mailserv) by dagobert.ZIB-Berlin.DE (4.1/SMI-4.0/1.9.92 ) id AA26988; Tue, 9 Feb 93 17:40:48 +0100 Received: from vm.urz.Uni-Heidelberg.de (vm.hd-net.uni-heidelberg.de) by sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (4.1/SMI-4.0-sc/19.6.92) id AA04868; Tue, 9 Feb 93 17:40:45 +0100 Message-Id: <9302091640.AA04868@sc.zib-berlin.dbp.de> Received: from DHDURZ1 by vm.urz.Uni-Heidelberg.de (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 1990; Tue, 09 Feb 93 17:41:39 CET Received: from DHDURZ1 by DHDURZ1 (Mailer R2.08 R208004) with BSMTP id 1465; Tue, 09 Feb 93 17:41:34 CET Received: from DHDURZ1 by DHDURZ1 (Mailer R2.08 R208004) with BSMTP id 1463; Tue, 09 Feb 93 17:41:31 CET Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: tarjeij@EXTERN.UIO.NO's message of Tue, 9 Feb 93 12:24:11 +0100 <9302091159.AA16071@central.bldrdoc.gov> Date: Tue, 9 Feb 93 09:07:47 MST From: "Jonathan M. Gilligan" Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple Recipients of Subject: Makeindex reimplementation Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 965 Can I ask a question regarding the C or PASCAL controversy about makeindex? The existence of WEB-2-C has been cited as a reason for continuing to develop in PASCAL WEB. On how many platforms has WEB-2-C been implemented? In other words, is there anywhere but UNIX that one can successfully use WEB-2-C to translate tex.web to C, compile it, and have it pass trip? If WEB-2-C exists only on UNIX platforms, while CWEB and FWEB work on a variety of platforms, then it seems advantageous to use C, thus allowing developers to avoid many of the kludges Knuth was required to put into TeX and friends to overcome PASCAL's limitations. ---Jon