If they didn't look at it at all, you'd better spend your time with writing tests instead of documentation

That seems a rephrasing of the main point of my post : spend your time improving the code quality (clearity, immediate understandability - by refactoring, writing tests &c) instead of investing in more extensive templated commenting for automatic doc report generation (as is popular in many coding environments these days).

Our specific code must be understandable - not to end customers (they never see it, but they do experience its (possibly lack of) quality) - but potentially for reuse and primarily for maintenance and further development.

Other projects may have other requirements, and thus other goals. As Arnon states in a footnote :

* I don't underestimate the value of generating full documentation when there's such a requirement from a customer. I would prefer to convince a customer that having such a Write-Only document is a complete waste of time and trees but sometimes you can't help it. Generating documents in these situations can be a life-saver.

allan

In reply to Re^2: What is your practice for code documentation? by ady
in thread What is your practice for code documentation? by ady

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