Re: Esoteric terminological query -- APIs

[puff -at- guild -dot- net]

Hans,

> OK, gang.  I suspect that a pretty small subset of us deals in 
> documenting Application Programming Interfaces.

> I'm documenting APIs for our product, and there are three flavors
> of API: [...]

> I'd like a "handle" I can use to refer to this set of three
> "ways to access the system".  
> 
> In the case of the C API, any language that can create calls that are 
> The Java API is object oriented. Essentially for each call
> in the C API, there is a class in the Java API that is instantiated
> The COM API is not now object oriented, but might become so.
> 
> Has any of you ever had to address this sort of a problem, where
> there are multiple APIs that provide entree to a system/product

     Sounds like you're answering your own question.  Call them "the
three APIs."  As a programmer, I can tell you that wouldn't put me off
too much.  Of course, I wouldn't be horribly put off by "protocol",
either, but API works just fine.

Steven J. Owens
puff -at- guild -dot- net

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