System for Preparing Software Documentation in Natural Languages

A software documentation preparing system, comprising:

• input means for inputting a source file including a source code statement written in a programming language and a comment assigned to the source code statement, in which source file, the comment describing one of functions in the source code is described in plural natural languages, each of the descriptions in the natural languages provided with a combined sign of a sign indicating the function, a sign indicating a type of natural language, and a sign indicating a nation or an area;
• storage means for interpreting the input source file, identifying the combined sign, associating the sign with a source code statement, and storing a comment on memory;
• extraction means for extracting only a comment provided with a sign corresponding to the type of the user-specified natural language to be output;
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• output means for outputting software documentation in the natural language to be output for the source code statement based on the extracted comment.

A program for configuring a software documentation preparing system that outputs software documentation in plural natural languages, used to direct a computer to function as:

• input means for inputting a source file including a source code statement written in a programming language and a comment assigned to the source code statement, in which source file, the comment describing one of functions in the source code is described in plural natural languages, each of the descriptions in the natural languages provided with a combined sign of a sign indicating the function and a sign indicating a type of natural language;
• storage means for interpreting the input source file, identifying the combined sign, associating the sign with a source code statement, and storing a comment on memory;
• extraction means for extracting only a comment provided with a sign corresponding to the type of the user-specified natural language to be output;
• and
• output means for outputting software documentation in the natural language to be output for the source code statement based on the extracted comment.

A program for configuring a software documentation preparing system that outputs software documentation in plural natural languages, used to direct a computer to function as:

• input means for inputting a source file including a source code statement written in a programming language and a comment assigned to the source code statement, in which source file, the comment describing one of functions in the source code is described in plural natural languages, each of the descriptions in the natural languages provided with a combined sign of a sign indicating the function, a sign indicating a type of natural language, and a sign indicating a nation or an area;
• storage means for interpreting the input source file, identifying the combined sign, associating the sign with a source code statement, and storing a comment on memory;
• extraction means for extracting only a comment provided with a sign corresponding to the type of the user-specified natural language to be output;
• and
• output means for outputting software documentation in the natural language to be output for the source code statement based on the extracted comment.