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Discussion on: I Translated Big Scary Tech Terms to Human so You Don't Have To

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Médéric Burlet

I think either some of the definitions are incomplete of the term is not defined well enough.

Stack as mentioned in comment can be a pile of paper it could also be a folder of various pages of information (cloud stack): It can also be the a group of all the technologies used in a project.

API: I really don't get the definition of it and how a signature is linked to it. I would describe it more as the postal office between multiple apps as an API allows communication between various services.

Scope I would change it to "Variable Scope" as scope can not only be variables but can be for classes, functions and more

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Vincent Milum Jr

The "API" definition listed above is more the classical definition from the C/C++ era of programming. What you're describing is more the modern era of "web API" - both are appropriate in different context.

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Médéric Burlet

That's why I mentioned that the term is not defined well enough specially as the post is tagged #javascript and not #c