Natural Docs

Theoretically, Natural Docs can generate documentation from any language that can support comments, or from plain text files. When executed, it can automatically document functions, variables, classes, and inheritance from ActionScript, C#, and Perl regardless of existing documentation in the source code. In all other languages, these need to be explicitly documented for them to be generated. It can generate documentation in HTML, either with frames or without.

Unlike Javadoc, it is not considered an industry standard for documenting in any language, although it can incorporate Javadoc documentation for languages with "full support."[2] It is used by some hobbyists and companies, such as CNET Networks, Inc. and Iron Realms Entertainment.[3][4] It has gained popularity amongst ActionScript developers because no other free documentation generator exists that fully supports ActionScript and because it generates higher-quality output than similar generators that partially support the language, such as ROBODoc.

This is an example of the documentation style:

 /*
  * Function: Multiply
  * 
  * Multiplies two integers.
  *
  * Parameters:
  *    x - The first integer.
  *    y - The second integer.
  *
  * Returns:
  *    The two integers multiplied together.
  *
  * See Also:
  *    <Divide>
  */
 
 int Multiply (int x, int y)
    {  return x * y;  }

For comparison, this is how the same thing would be documented with Javadoc:

 /** 	 
  * Multiplies two integers. 	 
  * 	 
  * @param x The first integer. 	 
  * @param y The second integer. 	 
  * @return The two integers multiplied together. 	 
  * @see Divide 	 
  */ 	 
 
 int Multiply (int x, int y) 	 
    { return x * y; }

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