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Discussion on: 90% of software engineering is integrating janky APIs, and I love it

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Manuel Odendahl

I think the worst API I had to use was related to that PC-NFSD COBOL thing I was referring to. In fact, the form had a β€œCommand” field, and there were about 600 commands all labeled with seemingly random strings like CFUATUU or DOFTTNI. I had 600 pages of documentation, one per command. No table of contents, no index, no page numbers. Of course nothing was in alphabetical order either. Absolute bliss.