Agreed, I think code is more like a recipe than an API is. But I don't think the parent was arguing that APIs should or shouldn't be copyrightable because of ho

Agreed, I think code is more like a recipe than an API is. But I don't think the parent was arguing that APIs should or shouldn't be copyrightable because of how they compare to recipes, they were just answering your question as to how they can be clearly differentiated from code.