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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 52 ,  Issue 5  (May 2009) table of contents
Security in the Browser
SECTION: Practice table of contents
Pages: 46-56  
Year of Publication: 2009
ISSN:0001-0782
Author
Michi Henning  ZeroC
Publisher
ACM  New York, NY, USA
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ABSTRACT

Bad application programming interfaces plague software engineering. How do we get things right?


CITED BY
Cleidson R. Souza , David F. Redmiles, On The Roles of APIs in the Coordination of Collaborative Software Development, Computer Supported Cooperative Work, v.18 n.5-6, p.445-475, December 2009

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  D. Software
  D.1 PROGRAMMING TECHNIQUES
      D.1.1 Applicative (Functional) Programming

Additional Classification:
  D. Software
  D.2 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
      D.2.2 Design Tools and Techniques
      D.2.3 Coding Tools and Techniques

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