Re:Ask HN: Which programming language has the best documenta...
by colanderman on Wednesday August 10, 2011 @11:33PM
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I'm going to vote twice:
1) ECMAScript, for being excrutiatingly detailed. Guy Steele did a wonderful job shoehorning an unambiguous specification around a loopy language.
2) PostgreSQL. While not particularly mathematical, Postgres docs do a good job of "covering all the bases"... potential "gotchas" and incompatibilities are always documented, and I never find myself wondering what a particular feature does.
1) ECMAScript, for being excrutiatingly detailed. Guy Steele did a wonderful job shoehorning an unambiguous specification around a loopy language. 2) PostgreSQL. While not particularly mathematical, Postgres docs do a good job of "covering all the bases"... potential "gotchas" and incompatibilities are always documented, and I never find myself wondering what a particular feature does.