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bawolfftoday at 12:07 AM2 repliesview on HN

Meh, if you need a computer program to understand an API its a bad api.

APIs should make sense inherently. An IDE can band-aid a bad design, but that doesn't make it a good design.


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atherton94027today at 12:16 AM

There are lots of APIs where the order of argument isn't obvious, it doesn't mean they're bad designs

mitxelatoday at 4:58 AM

That's why I only program in punched cards. If you need a visual editor you're a bad programmer.

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