http://davidfischer.name/2009/11/good-documentation-makes-a-good-project/ Some Things to Some People Wed, 22 Feb 2012 03:36:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://davidfischer.name/2009/11/good-documentation-makes-a-good-project/comment-page-1/#comment-102 David Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:53:47 +0000 http://www.davidfischer.name/?p=315#comment-102 <a href="#comment-101" rel="nofollow">@Frank Wiles </a> You're right. POD almost definitely predates Javadoc and it isn't exactly a Javadoc clone, either. Still, the Java guys stole the idea from POD (or something that predates POD,) improved it and really set the gold standard for generating API documentation. @Frank Wiles
You’re right. POD almost definitely predates Javadoc and it isn’t exactly a Javadoc clone, either. Still, the Java guys stole the idea from POD (or something that predates POD,) improved it and really set the gold standard for generating API documentation.

]]> http://davidfischer.name/2009/11/good-documentation-makes-a-good-project/comment-page-1/#comment-101 Frank Wiles Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:08:53 +0000 http://www.davidfischer.name/?p=315#comment-101 You'll want to check me on this, but if memory serves Perl's POD documentation predates Javadoc and I believe Java itself. You’ll want to check me on this, but if memory serves Perl’s POD documentation predates Javadoc and I believe Java itself.

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