Developer(s) Frans Slothouber | Initial release 1994 (1994) | |
 | ||
Stable release 4.99.43 / April 26, 2015 (2015-04-26) Operating system License GNU General Public License | ||
ROBODoc is a documentation tool similar to Javadoc and licensed under the GPL. It is used to extract API documentation from source code. It can be used with any language that supports comments and works by extracting specially formatted headers. These are then reformatted into HTML, DocBook, TROFF, ASCII, LaTeX, PDF, or RTF.
Contents
It can be used to document any programming artifact, such as: classes, functions, tests, makefile entries, etc.
ROBODoc works with C, C++, Fortran, Perl, shell scripts, Assembler, DCL, DB/C, Tcl/Tk, Forth, Lisp, COBOL, Occam, Basic, HTML, Clarion, and any other language that supports comments.
History
The first version of ROBODoc was written by Jacco van Weert in 1995. ROBODoc was inspired by the Autodocs program that was available on the Amiga. Autodocs produced ASCII output only. Jacco created a version that created output in Amigaguide format. This made it possible to create hyperlinks between the various documentation parts.
Example
A typical ROBODoc header
and the resulting output