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Teach, Don't Tell (2013)
This post is about writing technical documentation. More specifically: it's about writing documentation for programming languages and libraries.
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- HN comments
- 143
- Submissions
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- 4 commenters
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On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 2025 | Teach, Don't Tell (2013) by Tomte | 212 | 75 |
| Sep 3, 2013 | Teach, Don't Tell by stevelosh | 203 | 50 |
| Jun 15, 2015 | Teach, Don’t Tell (2013) by Tomte | 135 | 18 |
Cited in comments
Linked from 4 Hacker News comments by 4 different people, from Jan 2016 to Jun 2022.
Most recent:
- silasdb · Jun 25, 2022
- JadeNB · Oct 24, 2019
- shadowfiend · Oct 23, 2019
- philippnagel · Jan 15, 2016