Atul Varma
toolness.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2008
Atul Varma, a Mozilla developer, writes about documented code, privacy, learning and online life.
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ash · 2010-03-16
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Are you talking about code-illuminated? [1,2,3] Interesting approach - works right in the browser.
For some reason I prefer docco output. I'm not sure why. Maybe the design is better. Maybe the code being annotated is better.
[1]: http://code.google.com/p/code-illuminated/
[2]: http://www.toolness.com/wp/?p=441
[3]: http://code-illuminated.googlecode.com/hg/index.html#docs/docs.js
adg · 2009-04-21
Original blog post about it (with comments) here: http://www.toolness.com/wp/?p=580.