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Post #52,003
by static
9/17/02 7:06:35 AM
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New Which way?
The use of our own API, or that he seemed not to have seen this before?

Wade.

"Ah. One of the difficult questions."
Post #52,017
by wharris2
9/17/02 10:25:46 AM
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New Re: Which way?
The idea that the concept of an API would be foreign to anyone doing any sort of programming during the past ten or fifteen years.

Home-built API's, or libraries, or whatever your terminology is - well, you want to avoid duplicating someone else's work, but there's frequently room for your own layers. Curses is a standard Unix terminal library, but I'm not sure I'd want to use the bare-bones library.
Post #52,143
by static
9/18/02 12:59:21 AM
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New Yes, that's what I thought you meant. :-)
I remember writing against the Zortech Display library - a text-mode interface for writing to the screen for DOS programs. I quickly added an extra layer to make it easier to work with (ah... abstraction). And in one project I added another layer to give me some rudimentary overlapping windows. :-)

Wade

"Ah. One of the difficult questions."
     The rise and fall of job openings - (ben_tilly) - (16) - Sept. 8, 2002, 10:35:04 PM EDT
         Easy stuff maintenance mode - (boxley) - Sept. 8, 2002, 11:17:34 PM EDT
         Wow! - (deSitter) - Sept. 10, 2002, 06:22:22 AM EDT
         Java was "hot" - (broomberg) - (12) - Sept. 11, 2002, 11:16:06 PM EDT
             What an opening - (tuberculosis) - (5) - Aug. 21, 2007, 06:40:26 AM EDT
                 Don't forget... - (admin) - (4) - Sept. 12, 2002, 05:21:07 PM EDT
                     Yes but C++ encourages open source! - (tuberculosis) - (2) - Aug. 21, 2007, 06:41:31 AM EDT
                         Re: Yes but C++ encourages open source! - (deSitter) - (1) - Sept. 13, 2002, 09:05:41 PM EDT
                             long been that way - (boxley) - Sept. 13, 2002, 09:57:28 PM EDT
                     That's Hideous -NT - (deSitter) - Sept. 13, 2002, 09:03:12 PM EDT
             Java was "hot" (add outsourcing?) - (wharris2) - (5) - Sept. 12, 2002, 09:17:31 PM EDT
                 Interesting comments. - (static) - (4) - Sept. 13, 2002, 07:28:52 AM EDT
                     Wince - (wharris2) - (3) - Sept. 16, 2002, 10:57:43 PM EDT
                         Which way? - (static) - (2) - Sept. 17, 2002, 07:06:35 AM EDT
                             Re: Which way? - (wharris2) - (1) - Sept. 17, 2002, 10:25:46 AM EDT
                                 Yes, that's what I thought you meant. :-) - (static) - Sept. 18, 2002, 12:59:21 AM EDT
         Intersting graph... - (Simon_Jester) - Sept. 12, 2002, 01:42:36 PM EDT

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