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| Authored by: Ian Al on Tuesday, May 01 2012 @ 09:04 AM EDT |
For an object oriented program interface, the 'tree of inheritance' is the
keystone of the API.
It's a bit like saying the difference between bricks and a house is the
structure. That seems to work because one can say 'the house is a structure' and
refer to the 'structure of the house'. So, the API is an SSO and the SSO is the
API. The bricks are the class libraries.
The fascinating thing is that this revelation is totally worthless to API
implementers and users and to lawyers. It adds nothing to the understanding of
what the API is or does.
It is only of interest to lawyers wishing to confuse the facts along the lines
that the copyright of a manual can be infringed by copying structural elements
from the house described by the manual, in constructing another house.
'That bathroom is practically identical in construction to the bathroom in our
specification. It is even given exactly the same name. They could have made it
eighty feet tall and called it the convenient.hygiene.room.'
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Regards
Ian Al
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