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6 Sep 2024 01:26:44 EDT (-0400)
  Re: APIs first?  
From: Nicolas Alvarez
Date: 1 Apr 2009 14:56:30
Message: <49d3b8de@news.povray.org>
Darren New wrote:
> http://asserttrue.blogspot.com/2009/04/api-first-design.html
> 
> Huh? Doesn't everyone document the APIs before they start writing code
> that
> exports APIs?  Seriously, don't you programmers do that?
> 
> I can't imagine how you can even know when you're done a piece of the
> library if you didn't do the documentation first. I thought that was,
> like, the only way to do it.

I spent weeks deciding on the API, some more weeks deciding on internal
design, and I've yet to write any *real code* for this one library... :)


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