API Design Matters

API Design Matters

Leander Herzog

Michi Henning

May 1, 2009

It is very easy to create a bad API and rather difficult to create a good one. Recent APIs implemented in modern programming languages make the same mistakes as their 20-year-old counterparts written in C. What can be done to get things right?

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