A documentation generator is a programming tool that generates documentation intended for programmers and end users, from a set of commented source code files, and in certain cases, binary files. This tool is used of programmers which don’t like to write documents with some other text processors. With this tool can be produced excellent development documentation with a few secconds. In this article we will present 5 (five) free Linux documentation generators which will suit to any programmers documentation need:

Documentation Generators:

1. Doxygen – Documentation system for C, C++, Java, Python and other languages
2. phpDocumentor – Complete documentation solution for PHP
3. Javadoc – Generate API documentation in HTML format
4. Natural Docs – Documentation generator that supports 19 different languages
5. DocBook Doclet – Creates DocBook code from Java source

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