Orthogonality in API design

An important quality of API design is minimalism, also called #orthogonality. This is a quality shared with programming language design as well.

Adding new terms or concepts complicates the design. It adds rules, exceptions, and quirks, thus making it harder to learn.

An example is the famous “verb in the resource name” dilemma.

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