http://simonwillison.net/2009-05-18T10:14:24+00:00Simon Willison2009-05-18T10:14:24+00:002009-05-18T10:14:24+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/May/18/apidesign/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://chaos.troll.no/~shausman/api-design/api-design.pdf">The Little Manual of API Design (PDF)</a></strong></p> A concise, highly readable guide to designing APIs that are “Complete, Easy to learn and memorize, lead to readable code, hard to misuse, and easy to extend”, based on lessons learnt over many years of development of the Qt framework. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/api-design">api-design</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/apis">apis</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/programming">programming</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/qt">qt</a></p>