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[Michael Havens]

thanks guys.

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 9:25 PM, Matt Graham <danceswithcrows at usa.net>wrote:

> 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 out of date or missing various important info.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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