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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Using the cognitive dimensions - API viscosity</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/stevencl/archive/2004/03/10/87652.aspx</link><description>API viscosity measures the resistance to change of code written using a particular API. For each goal that the user might want to accomplish with the API, describe how easy it is to make changes to the code required to accomplish that goal. In particular,</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)</generator><item><title>API usability (by yag)</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/stevencl/archive/2004/03/10/87652.aspx#87681</link><pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2004 06:10:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:87681</guid><dc:creator>VS DATA Team's WebLog</dc:creator><description /></item><item><title>re: Using the cognitive dimensions - API viscosity</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/stevencl/archive/2004/03/10/87652.aspx#128939</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2004 07:43:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:128939</guid><dc:creator>StreamWriter</dc:creator><description>objWrite.java:12: cannot resolve symbol&lt;br&gt;symbol  : class StreamWriter&lt;br&gt;location: class objWrite&lt;br&gt;                StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(&amp;quot;C:\test.txt&amp;quot;, true);&lt;br&gt;                ^&lt;br&gt;objWrite.java:12: cannot resolve symbol&lt;br&gt;symbol  : class StreamWriter&lt;br&gt;location: class objWrite&lt;br&gt;                StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(&amp;quot;C:\test.txt&amp;quot;, true);</description></item></channel></rss>