Xah's Edu Corner: Examples of Quality Technical Writing

Pascal Bourguignon spam at mouse-potato.com
Tue Dec 6 09:53:42 EST 2005


"Xah Lee" <xah at xahlee.org> writes:

> i had the pleasure to read the PHP's manual today.
>
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/
>
> although Pretty Home Page is another criminal hack of the unix lineage,
> but if we are here to judge the quality of its documentation, it is a
> impeccability.
>
> it has or possesses properties of:
>
> • To the point and useful.
>
>   PHP has its roots in mundaness, like Perl and Apache. Its doc being
> practicality oriented isn't a surprise, as are the docs of Perl and
> Apache.
>
> • Extreme clarity!

Do you have an "Approved by Xah Lee" seal logo they could put on their web page?

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