On: Did PayPal Just Clone Stripe’s API Documentation?

[vinothgopi]

They all use a document generator: http://jashkenas.github.com/docco/ (MIT License)

That is why they look so similar.

[boucher → vinothgopi]

For what it's worth, we (Stripe) don't use docco. Though, the design was repurposed with permission from @jashkenas.

I probably was not the first person to extend the idea of the side by side layout to an API spec and example, but I had not seen anything like it when I built the Stripe docs two years ago.