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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  documentation
       n 1: confirmation that some fact or statement is true [syn: {certification},
             {corroboration}]
       2: program listings or technical manuals describing the
          operation and use of programs [syn: {software
          documentation}]


       3: documentary validation; "his documentation of the results
          was excellent"; "the strongest support for this this view
          is the work of Jones" [syn: {support}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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
  
  

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  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}.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  documentation
       
          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}.
       
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