CLiP, a universal literate programming tool

CLiP (Code from Literate Program) is a tool which allows writing literate programs in virtually any programming language (Pascal, Fortran, C, C++, Assembler languages, etc) and in combination with almost any formatter (Runoff, Troff, TeX, LaTeX, etc.) or word-processor (Winword, Lotus Manuscript, Ami Pro, Word Perfect, Wordstar, etc). This posting explains the CLiP philosophy and compares it to the WEB approach. CLiP turns out much more general. In spite of this generality its disadvantages as compared to the WEB-family are few indeed. Currently we have two versions of CLiP, for VAX/VMS and for MS-DOS platform. Although only limited user documentation is available, this is not felt as a big problem since CLiP works fairly intuitivel