Rational and basic overview
The reason for having a compiler is that it is useful to have
certain common information between many different web pages
to implement a consistant style amoung the pages. To a certain
extent, this can be implemented by the web server via
Server Side Includes, but that feature is not uniformly
available. In addition, the webc compiler can do
a few other tricks.
webc is implemented in the Perl programming language.
Usually the implementation language of a program is not important.
However, it is here, because it is possible for the user to add
code to the compiler at run time. This feature allows for a certain
amount of flexibility and oddity.
Source for this file can be found in overview.wc.