Re: What's the differnece between API and Framework?
Re: What's the differnece between API and Framework?
- Subject: Re: What's the differnece between API and Framework?
- From: Graham Cox <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 11:49:22 +1000
On 22/05/2009, at 11:38 AM, Chunk 1978 wrote:
ok... so an API is like a lower level framework? wikipedia states
that Carbon and Cocoa are APIs on Mac, but i always thought those were
frameworks.
An API is the soup, the framework is the tin it comes in. Soup also
comes in cartons and bowls. But if you were handed a tin of soup, you
might just call it 'soup' rather than 'a tin of soup', since the tin
doesn't really matter, it's just the container.
--Graham
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