Doc-O-Matic

[Jim Barrow]

>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.

>>I predicted a product like this. ;o)

I saw it in a fortune cookie.

>>>Has anyone here used this?

>>>http://www.doc-o-matic.com/

>>>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.