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To: Night Writer who wrote (79536)3/14/2000 10:10:00 PM
From: rudedog  Read Replies (1) of 97611
 
NW - APIs are application programming interfaces - the description of how to write a program to access operating system functions. Also applies to program-to-program interfaces like an application written to use a database engine. I don't think that's what they meant... the notion that the ASP community will drive some kind of "Universal APIs" that will make a given OS irrelevant is the holy grail of Java, as well as many other efforts going back to "P-code" in the late 70s, but so far ain't happening. If the author thinks this will be the year for OS-agnostic APIs after 20 years of trying, he is hopelessly out on the lunatic fringe.
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