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		reilly3000 on June 19, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Tragedy of the Common Lisp, Or, Why Large Lang... Except it isn't. Attributes of languages include their documentation syntax and extension API. Getting this right makes a remarkable difference for how easily a person can grok a new library or extension and make it useful. A good language has a common "language" overall, not just code syntax.

bshanks on June 20, 2015 [–]

Which language(s) do you think do a particularly good job of documentation syntax and extension API?

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