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Ask HN: Examples of excellent technical writing
Does anybody have any examples of what they would consider excellent technical writing (preferably paragraphs or small examples over books or larger projects)?
- nabla9 10y agoCLHS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Lisp_HyperSpec https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Lisp_HyperSpec
- kazinator 10y agoExample of egregiously bad technical writing: "1.4.1.2.1 Splicing in Modified BNF Syntax"
- dbremner 10y agoJohn R. Ellis' doctoral thesis - Bulldog: A Compiler for VLIW Architectures (http://www.cs.yale.edu/publications/techreports/tr364.pdf http://www.cs.yale.edu/publications/techreports/tr364.pdf) is an example of excellent technical writing.
- wkoszek 10y agoRaymond Chen's writing: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/ https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/ Joel Spolsky writing: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/ http://www.joelonsoftware.com/
- farm_code 10y agoMartin Fowler - http://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/ http://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/