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Communications of the ACM, Volume 52, Issue 5

Pages 46 - 56

https://doi.org/10.1145/1506409.1506424

Published: 01 May 2009 Publication History

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Bad application programming interfaces plague software engineering. How do we get things right?

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API design matters
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Designing software
      1. Software implementation planning
        Software design techniques
    2. Software development process management
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language types
        Functional languages

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Communications of the ACM Volume 52, Issue 5

Security in the Browser

May 2009

132 pages

ISSN:0001-0782

EISSN:1557-7317

DOI:10.1145/1506409

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