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>Donald H. White said:
>>Vicky Moorman wrote:
>>>James Barrow wrote:
>I haven't seen that "tool," but I did get a query from a potential >client who wanted me to edit the document set they produced >using "Dr. Explain" (http://www.drexplain.com/). It's funny to >find that some actually think a writer isn't needed. "Now, if we >just engineer this right, ..."
This was my concern, and it was just validated by the company owner. They don't really want documentation, they want a clerk to come in and copy and paste the developers' comments into something cohesive for an internal doc.
>>>It seems fairly straightforward, although I'm wondering just how >>>much code an author needs to know to decipher what is useful >>>documentation from comments and lines of code.
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