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vibhavs on Oct 8, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: Who makes the best APIs?

While this doesn't directly answer your question, I've found this to be helpful in the past: The Little Manual of API Design - http://chaos.troll.no/~shausman/api-design/api-design.pdf

throw_away on Oct 8, 2009 | [–]

I also like this josh bloch google tech talk video "How to design a good API and why it matters.": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAb7hSCtvGw

xenoterracide on Oct 8, 2009 | [–]

awesome. I've been looking for something that talks about api design...

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