RE: API doc question

["Michael Herman \(Parallelspace\)" <mwherman -at- parallelspace -dot- net>]

There are specific s/w development tools like MS Visual Studio that can
extract special API documentation comments from the source code of a
software prodict (method names, parameter names, parameter datatypes,
functional description/comments, etc.) and automatically generate online
help for SDKs, etc.  I think this is the most likely scenario the reviewer
was referring to.

Michael Herman (Toronto)

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Subject: API doc question

I had a phone interview yesterday with someone who wanted details about my
experience with API documents. One of the questions asked was, "What kind of
API documentation have you worked with?"

Here's the (stupid) question - is there more than one type? 


Obviously I didn't get the job. (I messed with API docs once, for about a
year, and that was over 4 years ago.)


      
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