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Stack Overflow recently launched their Documentation beta. I propose we make Documentation for Programmers.SE, too.

As Jeff Atwood said in his blog post,

Stack Overflow is for when you're front of your compiler or editor working through code issues. Programmers is for when you're in front of a whiteboard working through higher level conceptual programming issues.

So if we use the same reasoning for Documentation:

Stack Overflow Documentation teaches you how to use malloc(), while Programmers Documentation teaches you memory management concepts.

Stack Overflow Documentation teaches you how to create a SQL database entity in PHP, while programmers Documentation teaches you about data structures and their usage.

Should there be Documentation for Programmers too?

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    this was asked and answered at MSE: "the product isn't quite ready to go elsewhere... Once it is known to work, then we can discuss the possibility of adding it to other sites..."
    – gnat
    Aug 29, 2016 at 9:38
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    @gnat this should be the answer actually.
    – maple_shaft Mod
    Aug 29, 2016 at 14:03
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    @maple_shaft there you go <-- made it into answer
    – gnat
    Aug 29, 2016 at 14:06

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This was asked and answered by Community Manager at MSE:

the product isn't quite ready to go elsewhere... Once it is known to work, then we can discuss the possibility of adding it to other sites but that won't be for 6-8 weeks...

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    "the product isn't quite ready" for Stack Overflow, either. It is a rat's nest of users writing poor quality junk in the hopes of gaining easy reputation.
    – user22815
    Aug 30, 2016 at 14:34

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