Making APIs usable

Tuesday

Aug222006

Tuesday, August 22, 2006 at 04:42PM

Some thoughts on what makes an API usable?

A programmer’s favorite APIs is completely transparent to his or her way of thinking.
An API has to fit into its target language.
- However, an exception is if you want a similar API over several target languages. It may be worth breaking the way a language typically dies things to gain a cohesive API.
Cover only the main use cases. No-one uses anything else.

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