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API Design for C++ Martin Ry
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann

Prevent each new release to completely destabilize existing usages. Another example: Contrary to the default belief of some I've encountered (and then corrected), Gavin King has never programmed in C++. This is a rather accessible look at the . Worse, recent APIs implemented in modern programming languages make the same mistakes as their 20-year-old counterparts written in C. An anonymous coward just provided a link to API compliance checker. The goal when designing an API is to prevent the amoeba shaking effect - e.g. Today we are announcing Casablanca, a Microsoft incubation effort to support cloud based client-server communication in native code using a modern asynchronous C++ API design. Proper API Design requires testing and verification. This requires standard unit testing as well, as something special - testing for binary compatibility There is a backward binary compatibility checker for shared libraries in C/C++. There seems to be something elusive about API design that, despite years of progress, we have yet to master.