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Ask HN: Examples of excellent technical writing

10 points·georgewsinger··5 comments

Does anybody have any examples of what they would consider excellent technical writing (preferably paragraphs or small examples over books or larger projects)?

Raymond Chen's writing: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/

Joel Spolsky writing: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/

John R. Ellis' doctoral thesis - Bulldog: A Compiler for VLIW Architectures (http://www.cs.yale.edu/publications/techreports/tr364.pdf) is an example of excellent technical writing.

CLHS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Lisp_HyperSpec

Example of egregiously bad technical writing:

"1.4.1.2.1 Splicing in Modified BNF Syntax"

Martin Fowler - http://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/

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