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Source code documentation is a fundamental engineering practice critical to efficient software development. Regardless of the intent of its author, all source code is eventually reused, either directly, or just through the basic need to understand it. In either case, the source code documentation acts as a specification of behavior for other engineers. Without documentation, they are forced to get the information they need by making dangerous assumptions, scrutinizing the implementation, or interrogating the author. These alternatives are unacceptable. Although some developers believe that source code 驴self-documents驴, there is a great deal of information about code behavior that simply cannot be expressed in source code, but requires the power and flexibility of natural language to state. Consequently, source code documentation is an irreplaceable necessity, as well as an important discipline to increase development efficiency and quality.