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Use of the term 'API' appears to be this decade's 'algorithm'. It's just an agreed on set of rules about how we're going to exchange data (aka, compute somethi
by hprotagonist 7y ago
Use of the term 'API' appears to be this decade's 'algorithm'.
It's just an agreed on set of rules about how we're going to exchange data (aka, compute something).
- sebazzz 7y agoI like the word contract for this. Especially because you ought to break things when you change the contract. Maintaining backwards compatibility is quite fascinating, think how Windows for instance manages version compatibility with using "struct size" parameters for instance and app manifests.
- hprotagonist 7y agoI usually map Interface to contract. But i grew up on c#, so that probably makes sense.