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Correction: "header files" only C, C++, not Java | 183 comments | Create New Account
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Correction: "header files" only C, C++, not Java
Authored by: PolR on Tuesday, June 04 2013 @ 01:14 PM EDT
So, whatever an API is, it does not have anything to do with "header files".
This is incorrect. The detailed comment below explains it better.
I think talking about API and header files as the same thing makes communications with the lawyers harder. Header files is only one way to communicate APIs and it is bad to confuse these when the language at question do not use header files.
Headers is how APIs are usually communicated to the program that uses them in C and C++. Java uses a different mechanism. But the underlying concept is the same. A program cannot use a library without the knowledge of its APIs. This knowledge must be communicated through some mechanism which varies from language to language.

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Correction: "header files" only C, C++, not Java
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, June 04 2013 @ 03:16 PM EDT
C in and of itself does not need any "header" files: the plain
text of the "header" file is inserted as though it had been
written in the source file, which means the relevant parts of
the header files could be written directly into the source
file and no header files used at all; what they do is make it
easy to write the function templates by storing them in a
separate file which can then be included where needed - write
once and then use when needed.

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