I have been trying to figure out what Donald Knuth's WEB is, but it is really conflicting. From what I can glean from the web page is that it's something like doxygen, but all of the sources I am reading insist that it is a programming language. However, it does not look like any programming language I have ever seen.
So what exactly is WEB? Is there some set of documentation that explains it?
Surprising question as nothing like a quick search can't find easily:
From the Wikipedia page at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WEB:
WEB is a computer programming system created by Donald E. Knuth as the first implementation of what he called "literate programming": the idea that one could create software as works of literature, by embedding source code inside descriptive text, rather than the reverse (as is common practice in most programming languages), in an order that is convenient for exposition to human readers, rather than in the order demanded by the compiler.
WEB consists of two secondary programs: TANGLE, which produces compilable Pascal code from the source texts, and WEAVE, which produces nicely-formatted, printable documentation using TeX.
CWEB is a version of WEB for the C programming language, while noweb is a separate literate programming tool, which is inspired by WEB (as reflected in the name) and which is language agnostic.
The most significant programs written in WEB are TeX and Metafont. Modern TeX distributions use another program Web2C to convert WEB source to C.
More info in the highly recommended book from the author:
Literate Programming (Center for the Study of Language and Information - Lecture Notes) Paperback – June 1, 1992
ISBN-13: 978-0937073803 ISBN-10: 0937073806
Check the reviews for the book at Amazon.com or better yet, buy the book and start reading.