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		otterley on Oct 18, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Four kinds of documentation Yeah, that part was always fine, but they sorely lacked a theory of operations -- which is essential for any sort of state machine or orchestrator! -- and basic "man page"-type documentation around processes, config files, etc.

kazinator on Oct 21, 2019 [–]

API's and programming languages are indeed very difficult to use effectively without documentation.

They are also not operating system user interfaces, productivity tools, games or web-browsers, and so not the topic of my little sub-thread here.

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