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From: Keith Thompson <kst@cts.com>
Subject: Re: How to Design an Application Programmers' Interface (API)
Date: 2000/08/10
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"E. Robert Tisdale" <edwin@netwood.net> writes:
> Be patient Keith,
> 
> You may find what I have to say
> about the GSL (GNU Scientific Library) API very interesting.
> But first,
> I think a critique of the BLAS (Basic Linear Algebra Subroutine)
> and LAPACK (Linear Algebra PACKage) Library APIs is in order.

But not in all these newsgroups.  Please.

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