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From: dag@control.lth.se (Dag Bruck)
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Subject: Re: seeking a Process Description Language (PDL) for C++
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Date: 12 Dec 90 08:14:57 GMT
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In article <4e853a67.21458@orbit.UUCP> you write:
>is there a commercial or public domain PDL process for C++? 
>that is, a way of putting inline commentary to describe a
>program and being able to extract that information (as well
>as language parsable information) out into a design
>document form.


I cannot help with PDL specifically, but I have written an AWK-script
that reads a C++ header file and produces a UNIX-style manual page.
It does a reasonable amount of formatting, and also moves some
declarations around.  This could perhaps be useful as an illustration
of how you can process C++ code in a very simple-minded way.

If you are interested, I can mail you the code for `classdoc'.

Please send me a summary of what you find out.

Best regards,

Dag M. Bruck
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