Using documentation for automatic code generation

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Having started work on a project that had an undocumented API and no documentation or help, I quickly found myself using the existing code to manually create documentation. Once that process was complete, quickly used that same documentation to generate large parts of the API for the project (almost 50%).

By writing just the glue logic and having API code generated from the documentation, adding and changing the interface required only a recompilation of the source to recreate the API.

Stream: Python, C/C++

Paper: Using Documentation for Automatic Code Generation

I work on the aditi project, a deductive database for use with the Mercury constraint/logic language. Im working on the client interface and network API. Aditi is written in c++, Mercury in c, so the api is also written in c. Python has been used all through the project as glue code and to automatically generate files and code.