{"id":640,"date":"2003-09-10T11:12:47","date_gmt":"2003-09-10T15:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=640"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"inside_every_api","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/10\/inside_every_api\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Every API"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.gotdotnet.com\/emeijer\/PermaLink.aspx\/ea13a4da-7421-44af-99e8-fc86de84e29c\">Erik Meijer<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/lambda.weblogs.com\/discuss\/msgReader$8655\">Lambda<\/a>):\n<\/p>\n\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/blogs.gotdotnet.com\/emeijer\/PermaLink.aspx\/ea13a4da-7421-44af-99e8-fc86de84e29c\">\nAny sufficiently useful API or programming pattern will migrate into its host programming language.\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>\nWhich is why languages should support macros so that programmers can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.research.avayalabs.com\/user\/wadler\/steele-oopsla98.pdf\">grow the language<\/a> themselves.\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erik Meijer (via Lambda): Any sufficiently useful API or programming pattern will migrate into its host programming language. Which is why languages should support macros so that programmers can grow the language themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}