Agreed. In unix command line pipe terms, the API is the goes-into-goes-outof (gozintagozouta) GIGO? for the library. This is how Sun engineers talked with management about new projects and indeed became a buzzword.
TL;DR Actually, if you include the unix command arguments, you get a lovely example of a Turing model: input, state, output. -- Owen On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Arlo Barnes <arlo.bar...@gmail.com> wrote: > For either phrase, either assume your audience knows what you are talking > about or define the terms before you go on. Explain that it is like a > control panel you can receive data from and send instructions through, and > being so generally defined does not go into details of implementation. > -Arlo James Barnes > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >
============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
