Re: How to Design an Application Programmers' Interface (API)

[Jack Klein <jackklein@spamcop.net>]

On Thu, 10 Aug 2000 02:20:40 +0000, "E. Robert Tisdale"
<edwin@netwood.net> wrote in comp.lang.c:

> The class library developer writes library functions, perhaps professionally,

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> object oriented computer programming languages like C++.
> Unfortunately, some C++ compilers still impose a penalty for abstraction

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> which are implemented in the standard C++ library -- list, queue, etc.

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> C++ API implementations hide the details of the actual

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> C++ API implementations use inline functions to avoid the abstraction penalty.

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I give up.  You very occasionally post an actual coherent, correct
reply to a question, then you generate utter stupidity like this.

>         typedef float   Single;
>         typedef double  Double;
>         typedef int     Integer;
>         typedef size_t  Size;

The four lines above are just moronic.

You crossposted this to a C, C++, FORTRAN, and Ada newsgroup.  C++,
FORTRAN, and Ada are off-topic in comp.lang.c.  FORTRAN and Ada are
off-topic in comp.lang.c++.  There isn't a single mention of Ada in
your entire post.

The typedef keyword exists in FORTRAN and Ada?

*Plonk* and good riddance, moron.

Jack Klein
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