Ask HN: Examples of excellent technical writing 10 points by georgewsinger 9y ago ↗ HN Does anybody have any examples of what they would consider excellent technical writing (preferably paragraphs or small examples over books or larger projects)?
[–] nabla9 9y ago ↗ CLHS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Lisp_HyperSpec [–] kazinator 9y ago ↗ Example of egregiously bad technical writing:"1.4.1.2.1 Splicing in Modified BNF Syntax"
[–] kazinator 9y ago ↗ Example of egregiously bad technical writing:"1.4.1.2.1 Splicing in Modified BNF Syntax"
[–] dbremner 9y ago ↗ 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.
[–] wkoszek 9y ago ↗ Raymond Chen's writing: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/Joel Spolsky writing: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/
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Joel Spolsky writing: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/