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A Brief, Opinionated History of the API
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Summary
Joshua Bloch discusses the history of APIs and looks at a few prominent examples with an eye to distilling their essence. He concludes with a brief discussion of the current legal status of APIs, and what it means for software professionals.
Bio
Joshua Bloch is the author of Effective Java and coauthor of Java Puzzlers and Java Concurrency in Practice. He was formerly the chief Java architect at Google, a distinguished engineer at Sun Microsystems. He led the design and implementation of numerous Java platform features, including the Java 5 language enhancements and the Java Collections Framework.
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