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Re:The Correct Way to Validate Email Addresses by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC on Friday September 09, 2016 @04:51AM (#12460524)
> It means you have to execute commands through a shell.

Except you don't. There is no need to involve a shell.

> A real API would be something you could include in your program, execute a method against and get a list of objects back.

So, Web APIs are not APIs?

Also, you can execute methods against command line programs, method names usually start with a dash.

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