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how much overlap is there in APIs

Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 04 2012 @ 04:23 AM EDT

Programming languages are built upon other programming languages - you can trace the lineage of practically every modern day languages to a handful of ancestral languages.

Which means that if Oracle had prevailed in asserting the copyright of APIs, they would be in deep do-dos as I'm sure a lot of the Java APIs could be traced back to copyrighted (sic) APIs of other languages - all used without permission.

I may stand corrected, but I once heard that the very first C++ compilers were simply C compilers with a pre-processor which simply translated to C++ code into C

Either we're both dupes of an urban legend, or it's correct - I'd also heard that the first C++ compiler implementations were by a pre-processor to the C compiler.

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early C++ compiler - Authored by: nsomos on Monday, June 04 2012 @ 05:09 AM EDT

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