Seibel: What is your process for designing software? Do you fire up Emacs and start writing code and then move it around until it looks right? Or do you sit down on your couch with a pad of paper? Bloch: I gave a talk called “How to Design a Good API and Why It Matters” at OOPSLA a couple years ago, and several versions of it are floating around the Web. It does a pretty good job explaining how I go about it.
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