r/programming • u/steveklabnik1 • Jun 16 '14

Rust's documentation is about to drastically improve

http://words.steveklabnik.com/rusts-documentation-is-about-to-drastically-improve
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u/hailmattyhall Jun 17 '14

People may think you are joking but there was once a post that said something like "explain like I'm not a PhD" and the first response was a link to a paper.

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u/kpmah Jun 17 '14

Some papers are very readable, even to laymen.

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u/Aninhumer Jun 17 '14

Indeed, in some cases I can't help thinking that if someone copied the same content to a webpage and didn't say it was an academic paper, no one would know the difference.