Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch...Application Integration

Programmatic APIs

• Defined interfaces as a set of functions to call
• Language-dependent
• Platform-dependent
• Application-dependent
• Point-to-point
• Compiled-in linkage in one process

And Now, The Bad News

That was the bad news. Getting an API right is hard work, keeping it right is harder.

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