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HTML? Why? (Score:2, Insightful)

by tagg (277)

Remember, you can still write your docs in POD, and use pod2html(1) ...
- Re:HTML? Why? (Score:2)
  
  by jonasbn (1153)
  
  Yes, I am thinking about writing a POD parser for VB.NET so I will end up with autogenerated HTML :)
  - Re:HTML? Why? (Score:1)
    
    by tagg (277)
    
    Isn't it 'just' a question of embedding POD in the .vb files, as VB comments? That way, the VB compiler will ignore it, and pod2html will already ignore anything not in =pod sections...
    - Re:HTML? Why? (Score:3, Interesting)
      
      by jonasbn (1153) <reversethis-{gro.napc} {ta} {nbsanoj}> on 2003.07.01 9:43 (#21622) Homepage Journal
      
      Exactly :)
      
      The hard part is getting people to write docs, that is a language and platform independent problem, even though Perl programmers seem to be easier to convince, perhaps this is due to the obfuscative nature of Perl?
      
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