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Started by Shashwat Rohilla August 04, 2011 08:04 AM

10 comments, last by szecs 12 years, 8 months ago

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August 05, 2011 03:43 PM

Could we say that an engine is a layer on top of lower level API ? The difference isn't simply that an engine is in higher abstraction level ?

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August 06, 2011 09:09 AM

It seems to me, that the two aren't comparable. It's like we tried to compare languages to programs or languages to IDE:s.
Maybe I'm wrong.

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