documentation

documentation
    n 1: confirmation that some fact or statement is true through
         the use of documentary evidence [syn: {documentation},
         {certification}, {corroboration}]
    2: program listings or technical manuals describing the
       operation and use of programs [syn: {software documentation},
       {documentation}]
    3: documentary validation; "his documentation of the results was
       excellent"; "the strongest support for this view is the work
       of Jones" [syn: {documentation}, {support}]
    

documentation
 n.

   The multiple kilograms of macerated, pounded, steamed, bleached, and
   pressed trees that accompany most modern software or hardware products
   (see also {tree-killer}). Hackers seldom read paper documentation and
   (too) often resist writing it; they prefer theirs to be terse and
   on-line. A common comment on this predilection is "You can't {grep}
   dead trees". See {drool-proof paper}, {verbiage}, {treeware}.
    

documentation

   <programming> The multiple kilograms of macerated, pounded,
   steamed, bleached, and pressed trees that accompany most
   modern software or hardware products (see also {tree-killer}).
   Hackers seldom read paper documentation and (too) often resist
   writing it; they prefer theirs to be terse and {on-line}.  A
   common comment on this predilection is "You can't {grep} dead
   trees".

   See {drool-proof paper}, {verbiage}, {treeware}.

   [{Jargon File}]

   (2003-10-25)
    

77 Moby Thesaurus words for "documentation":
      account, affirmation, annals, attestation, authentication, backing,
      backing up, basis for belief, bearing out, body of evidence,
      bolstering, buttressing, catalog, certification, chain of evidence,
      chronicle, circumstantiation, clue, confirmation, correspondence,
      corroboration, corroboratory evidence, data, datum, evidence,
      exhibit, fact, facts, fortification, grounds, grounds for belief,
      history, indication, inventory, item of evidence, letters, list,
      manifestation, mark, material grounds, memorial, muniments,
      mute witness, piece of evidence, pipe roll, premises, proof,
      proving, proving out, ratification, reason to believe, record,
      recording, register, registry, reinforcement, relevant fact, relic,
      remains, roll, rolls, roster, rota, scroll, sign, strengthening,
      substantiation, support, supporting evidence, symptom, table,
      token, trace, undergirding, validation, verification, vestige