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Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite illustration in Computer Sci... by gpderetta on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @06:43PM (#34346756)
Ah they are called railroad diagrams, it makes sense. I first saw the in sqlite documentation [1]. Thanks for giving them a name!

[1] https://www.sqlite.org/lang_select.html

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Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite illustration in Computer Sci... by markandrewj on Thursday January 12, 2023 @02:17AM (#34350239)
Another place that uses this style of diagram is the original JSON spec.

https://www.json.org/json-en.html

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