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[Matt Graham]

From: Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com>
> api? what is an api?
[snip]

API = Application Programming Interface.  This is shorthand for "a
semi-standardized set of mostly-documented function calls that should return a
semi-standardized set of data or perform a set of actions in a format that
mostly makes sense according to the documentation".

The term is often overloaded and/or misused.  The API documentation is often
out of date or missing various important info.  But APIs are all over the
place, and if you're dealing with binary-only things, they may be the only way
to do what you need to do.

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