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Re: [coders] Well designed C++ API?


This one time, at band camp, Carlo Sogono wrote:
>What constitutes the term "poor library"? Is it the poor construction of 
>interfaces or poor programming of the library itself? Or both? From what 
>I have heard from colleagues the OpenDiameter library for instance has 
>good interfaces (meaning easy to use) but bad implementation (slow, 
>memory leaks, etc.).

I first thought of this list when Erik started the thread:

http://sourcefrog.net/weblog/software/aesthetics/interface-levels.html