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Amazon Prime also has "Three-Body" which is a chinese(?) version which runs to 30 hours.
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AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Hi All,
How does your company handle documentation of code? I can see the point once it's nailed down, a couple of pages it does this helps (algorithm, inputs & outputs), however this place doesn't do Software or Electronics (they have started to!) they have this thing of process flow charts. While this is possible with some simpler rigs (mostly embedded) with Windows code the shear size of a DLL prevents a flow chart for it. So what is a better way, I have come across Jackson diagrams which I did back at college when Pascal was the thing. They seem to muddy the water... any suggestions any one?
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glennPattonWork3 wrote: How does your company handle documentation of code?
hahahahah deep breath ... hahahahahah
Our code base is ancient; most of the base documentation was written decades ago (yes, decade)
We have word documents for each module describing what it does, business model and a description of the UI/UX and the database tables and the error messages; the word documents are in source control.
The code itself is , err, well, documented.
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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Quote: Our code base is ancient; most of the base documentation was written decades ago (yes, decade)
I laugh at you calling a decade ancient. My program is 3 decades old and still actively coded (though not for too much longer). The last good documentation was written 15 years ago.
Bond
Keep all things as simple as possible, but no simpler. -said someone, somewhere
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i said decadeS ...
Oldest comment in the code is from 1994.
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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I've got...
Quote: * ommgr1.cob 11 Apr 1992, 13:41
going once, going twice. Anyone got an older date?
Bond
Keep all things as simple as possible, but no simpler. -said someone, somewhere
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yep... since we're having a measuring contest I go back to 1984.
You would be AMAZED at how much old code is lurking out there.
Charlie Gilley
βThey who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.β BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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charlieg wrote: You would be AMAZED at how much old code is lurking out there.
Yeah, and everything still compile with the latest compilers. (with some minor updates).
In my previous job, we also had files from the 80s (fortran maths stuff converted to C ).
( I can't check them, obviously),
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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We use Sandcastle Help File Builder to generate documentation from the XML comments in our C# code.
If you use other languages Doxygen maybe an option.
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Useful if the comments keep up with code changes, but too often I have seen code changed and the comments left untouched, even ignored in code reviews. Result is worse than no comments at all!
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True, it takes some discipline to update the comments which is something some developers seem to lack ...
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We use DoxyPress[^], a ground-up rewrite of doxygen. We switched to it when we discovered doxygen couldn't handle our code base.
They use specially-marked comments in the source code to generate documentation. The comments can use Markdown for formatting. It can generate HTML, HTML Help, LaTex, etc. It's pretty capable. Out of the box it can generate documentation from unmarked code that's useful in and of itself including outlines of the source code, a class index, call and inheritance graphs and so on. It handles C# well, unlike doxygen.
We've begun documenting our current generation product using it. Our automated build process runs DoxyPress against the code, generating source documentation for each build.
Software Zen: delete this;
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will have to look into this. I used to use a product from SciTools, but they got stupid expensive. Guess they decided the small developer market was irrelevant. I don't have a problem paying $1200 for a product. Forcing me to do it every dang year? I don't think so.
Charlie Gilley
βThey who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.β BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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