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diff --git a/doc/faq.doc b/doc/faq.doc index 1ed33dc..cf18fab 100644 --- a/doc/faq.doc +++ b/doc/faq.doc @@ -210,6 +210,17 @@ generator -> gen At the time I was looking into lex and yacc, where a lot of things start with "yy", so the "y" slipped in and made things pronouncable. +<li><b>What was the reason to develop doxygen?</b> + +I once wrote a GUI widget based on the Qt library (it is still available at +http://qdbttabular.sourceforge.net/ and maintained by Sven Meyer). +Qt had nicely generated documentation (using an internal tool which +they didn't want to release) and I wrote similar docs by hand. +This was a nightmare to maintain, so I wanted a similar tool. I looked at +Doc++ but that just wasn't good enough (it didn't support signals and +slots and did have the Qt look and feel I have grown to like), +so I started to write my own tool... + </ol> \htmlonly |