Re:Let Oracle own API's, Justice Dept tells top court in sur...
by mc808 on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @10:49AM
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A heading in a book is just as much a contract about the content as a method signature is about the content of a method. It takes effort and creativity to produce a coherent outline for a book.
And as any (competent) programmer knows, the "interface" in "code against interfaces not implementations" is merely a homonym of the "interface" in "application programming interface".
Re:Let Oracle own API's, Justice Dept tells top court in sur...
by Oletros on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @10:35AM
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> Google didn't just copy the "heading" java.lang.Math.max() they also copied the contract that calling this method should always return the bigger of the two arguments.
Irrelevant, the contract is not part of the trial
Re:Let Oracle own API's, Justice Dept tells top court in sur...
by Ygg2 on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @10:41AM
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Sure, some interfaces took time to develop. But most are obvious from a simplistic use case.
If any language has a function max that takes two integer values and doesn't return bigger, that language isn't worth bothering.
Google didn't just copy the "heading" java.lang.Math.max() they also copied the contract that calling this method should always return the bigger of the two arguments. Ergo, the "content" under the heading is the same, or rather the any differance between the content of Oracle's book and Google's book is irrelevant
As any programmer knows, you code against interfaces not implementations. And if you don't realize that declaring those interfaces take both effort and creativity then you probably aren't a very good programmer.