http://wiki.apidesign.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Star 2026-04-08T22:42:39Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.12.0rc1 http://wiki.apidesign.org/index.php?title=Star&diff=10608&oldid=prev 2022-05-01T07:32:10Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: white; color:black;"> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">←Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">Revision as of 07:32, 1 May 2022</td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>[[API]]s are said to be like [[star]]s. <del style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">See </del>the [[Blogs:JaroslavTulach:Theory:DiamondsVsStars|Diamonds vs. Stars]] allegory.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>[[API]]s are said to be like [[star]]s. <ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Star cannot know ''&quot;who's watching&quot;'' and cannot ''&quot;just disappear&quot;''. It may explode, turn into supernova, burn out. However there are physical laws that prevent it to ''&quot;disappear suddenly&quot;'' (unless [[god]] would [[wikipedia:Does_God_Play_Dice%3F|play dice with us]]).</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>&#160;</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Just like that a method in an [[API]] cannot be ''&quot;just refactored away&quot;''. There are laws of [[API Design]] that require it to behave properly (if one wants to be real [[API]] designer and not play dice with users of the [[API]]).</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>&#160;</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">More in </ins>the [[Blogs:JaroslavTulach:Theory:DiamondsVsStars|Diamonds vs. Stars]] allegory.</div></td></tr> </table>

JaroslavTulach http://wiki.apidesign.org/index.php?title=Star&diff=2875&oldid=prev 2009-09-15T07:35:29Z

<p>New page: <a href="/wiki/API" class="mw-redirect" title="API">APIs</a> are said to be like <a href="/wiki/Star" title="Star">stars</a>. See the <a href="/wiki/Blogs:JaroslavTulach:Theory:DiamondsVsStars" title="Blogs:JaroslavTulach:Theory:DiamondsVsStars">Diamonds vs. Stars</a> allegory.</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>[[API]]s are said to be like [[star]]s. See the [[Blogs:JaroslavTulach:Theory:DiamondsVsStars|Diamonds vs. Stars]] allegory.</div>

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