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Re:The Bookish Life: How to Read and Why by edflsafoiewq on Thursday October 18, 2018 @10:41PM (#18253918)
There always seems to be someone on HN willing to bemoan any prose style that aspires above the perfect perfunctoriness of API documentation.
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Re:The Bookish Life: How to Read and Why by confounded on Friday October 19, 2018 @01:01AM (#18254345)
Orwell would have written superb API documentation.

(Even if every deprecated end-point was described having a faint smell of boiled cabbage.)

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Re:The Bookish Life: How to Read and Why by fipple on Friday October 19, 2018 @04:36AM (#18255115)
Come on, this is not Joycean or Faulknerian stuff.
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Re:The Bookish Life: How to Read and Why by komali2 on Friday October 19, 2018 @11:33AM (#18257410)
Not quite. Many authors hot the mark for me. Neil gaiman, Stephenson, Peter Watts, doctorow, all write prose eloquently without getting obtuse.
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