Documentation system which is independent of programming language

Question

Is there a documentation system which is simple, will generate some friendly, hyperlinked documentation, for any language through the use of comment indications? Such a system may merely be given regexes or patterns to recognise comments and then generate structure.

I was going to write one but figured there must be one already.

Answer 1

Have you seen Doxygen? It may be what you're looking for.