Why API Design Matters

Courtesy Lambda the Ultimate - Programming Languages Weblog  Tue, 12/15/2009 - 16:09

Michi Henning, Why API Design Matters , Communications of the ACM, May 2009.

After more than 25 years as a software engineer, I still find myself underestimating the time it takes to complete a particular programming task.

Sometimes, the resulting schedule slip is caused by my own shortcomings: as I dig into a problem, I simply discover it is a lot more difficult than I initially thought, so the problem takes longer to solve—such is life as...


 

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