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An application programming interface (API) is a set of routines, data structures, object classes and/or protocols provided by libraries and/or operating system services in order to support the building of applications.

An API may be: * Language-dependent, that is, only available in a particular programming language, utilizing the particular syntax and elements of the programming language to make the API convenient to use in this particular context. * Language-independent, that is, written in a way that means they can be called from several programming languages (typically an asm/c-level interface). This is a desired feature for a service-style API which is not bound to a particular process or system and is available as a remote procedure call.

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