Re: master 1e3b0f2: Improve doc strings of project.el

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 13.07.2020 10:58, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> Even the term "API", "application programming interface" conveys
> the culture on the one side: here be the system programmers (better
> paid, presumably), there be the application programmers. If one of
> the latter*dares*  to touch system things, (s)he's fired [1].

This is is pretty dated view: the "system things" are rarely in the 
picture. But they are as fine to touch as any, as long as that fits the 
abstraction you are defining.

The difference between system programmers and application programmers, I 
think, is the latter have found that abstractions are a good thing for a 
lot of domains, and have come up with certain rules for using them.

I can certainly understand how a system programmer might dislike having 
to deal with extra abstractions, but, again, certain jobs simply call 
for using them.