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Someone reading my now ancient
C++ coding standard recommendation for using doxygen to automatically generate documentation from source code, asked a great question:
I've often considered using doxygen, I always ask myself - is this really useful? Would I use it if I were new to a project? Would programmers working on the project use it?
I'll rephrase their question to more conveniently express a point I've thought a lot about: Why do companies put so little effort into automating their own development process to make development easier?
It's like the hair stylist whose own hair looks like someone cut it using a late night infomercial vacuum cleaner attachment. Or it's like the interior decorator whose own house looks like a monk's cell.
Software organizations rarely build software to make developing software easier. Why is that?
Because there are three ways changes are made in an organization:
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