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Comment by jared314 | Hacker News Reader

Having anyone review your code is a good way to make sure it is easy to understand.

Very true. I didn't mean open source is the only way.

Code reviews, extreme/paired programming, personal discipline, and lots of experience on development teams are also great ways. I'm sure there are others too.

These all are very good points but well written code is not easy to find and tools which help one to quickly understand code become really important in such cases.

In my experience, I've found that processes that influence the desired behavior (through the use of incentives) have been more effective than tools. But I'm certainly no expert and am always looking for better ways to do things.

Have you used any tools that you've found to encourage well written code? I'd really love to give them a try.

I agree to your point that that we need to write more understandable code(whatever the influences may be). By tools I meant some application which would help me understand already available code (well written or otherwise). Something which would quickly let me jump into the code and start working even when I do not have any background information about the code base.

Does something like JavaDoc, PHPDoc, JSDoc help?

That would be an awesome tool though. Sounds like a great startup idea if someone can figure out how to build something like that :-)

Yes, a great startup idea. What do you think of our product, i.e the video on our blog (the Architexa blog)?

Looks interesting, I like how you can drill down into a sequence diagram, something I have tried to find in a tool in the past.

What languages/platforms does it support? .Net?

Currently we are starting with Java, but do intend to get to other languages. Feel free to vote for your language on the blog or on the HN post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1338310

Nice. Reminds me of some of the plugins for .Net Reflector, except more interactive.

It's a very interesting take on UML tooling. Your product has a lot of potential. I'm curious to play around with it once it's released.

We are letting people in slowly for the trial version of our tool to provide good support. I would suggest you to sign up here (http://www.architexa.com/) and we will get back to you. Thanks for showing interest in our product.

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