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Prototype is a JavaScript framework that aims to ease development of dynamic web applications. Featuring a unique, easy-to-use toolkit for class-driven development and the nicest Ajax library around, Prototype is quickly becoming the codebase of choice for web application developers everywhere.

PDoc is an inline comment parser and JavaScript documentation generator written in Ruby. It is designed for documenting Prototype and Prototype-based libraries. PDoc uses Treetop, a Ruby-based DSL for text parsing and interpretation, and its own ActionView-inspired, ERB-based templating system ... [More] for HTML generation. Other documentation generators (e.g., DocBook XML) are planned. Unlike other inline-doc parsers, PDoc does not rely on the JavaScript source code at all; it only parses the comments. This approach, though slightly more verbose, is much better at generating consistent, reliable documentation, and avoids the headaches encountered when documenting highly dynamic languages. [Less]