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The coast and the shore: a API koan
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, April 21 2012 @ 07:40 AM EDT
It seems that Oracle is hoping for a very high tide!
A tsunami perhaps?
In reality the tide is very low, Google is digging clams
and Oracle is upset because they don't get any.

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The coast and the shore: a API koan
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, April 21 2012 @ 01:15 PM EDT
Quite a good observation. At an ANSI C conference (struggling for the first standardization), someone called the standard the treaty point between the compiler producers and the language users. An API is such a treaty point, in that it describes what can be counted on, and in so doing, provides a minimal specification of what must be built.

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Shifting Sands? n/t
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, April 21 2012 @ 04:41 PM EDT

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One is the same, the other is not
Authored by: mexaly on Saturday, April 21 2012 @ 11:48 PM EDT
You said it was a koan ;-)

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