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"Hart, Geoff" wrote:
>
> Frank "I grep therefore I am" <g> Kronberg is seeking a word for the
> following process:
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> To create API documentation:
> 1) I am greping through C++ source code header files, extracting all
> method/function prototypes, as well as typedefs and enums.
> 2) I am collecting all of these data in a relational database, along with
> my hand-written descriptions and notes (also in RDB)
> 3) From the RDB, I create output with specific formatting conventions and I
> serve this output as PDF files and HTML files which are accessed by a
> variety of users' browsers.
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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> You could certainly call this a "programmatic" or "algorithmic" approach,
> but "automatic" would be a lot less intimidating to the average reader.
>
I'd uses "automated" rather than "automatic"
