Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 05 2013 @ 08:29 PM EDT |
Do not forget PJ Plaugher and _The Standard C Library_.
Whilst not an API, per se, it was treated as such, especially when recast in
other programming languages.
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Authored by: PolR on Wednesday, June 05 2013 @ 09:43 PM EDT |
> I think that what you're pointing to is "Portability".
That is part of it. But the ability to reuse the same library in multiple
programs is not portability. And the ability to have multiple interoperable
implementations of the same library is broader than portability.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 06 2013 @ 05:31 AM EDT |
If you were to declare that APIs are copyright, then the last
30 years of code (C, C++, etc.) would become illegal
Isn't JAVA's
API based on/including some of C or C++ APIs and
so make oracle guilty of
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