[prog] APIs for dummies?

[Kathryn Andersen]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 09:08:55PM -0700, Anthony Gorecki wrote:
> For linux, there are two major graphical API's you can choose from. The first 
> of which is GTK (whose flagship application is GIMP), and the second is Qt. 
> GTK is free regardless of what you want to use it for, but you'll have to 
> shell out a license fee to trolltech if you want to use Qt for non-personal 
> applications.

Huh?  I thought API meant "Applications Programming Interface", not
"Widget-Set", which is basically all that GTK or QT are -- a set of X
Widgets.

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