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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 31 2013 @ 12:14 PM EDT |
API is not Data.
"An API is simply a kind of protocol."
You cannot divide the universe of thoughts up into "languages",
"APIs", "ABIs", "instruction sets", and
"protocols", and treat each one differently. They are all the same
thing. "If you want to communicate this datum, here's how you do it."
please don't lump them all together, it confuses the issue
Protocol and API are not two sides of the same coin.
Protocol is about data transfer and response
API is about function delegation.
an API and an ABI are two very very different things
You cannot apply English language idioms to the words you see used. These are
all terms of art and have very specific meaning.
Meaning which I am sad to say a considerable number of people who think of
themselves as technically literate fail to grasp (API/ABI being a first class
example).
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