/** \file 
Documentation of netCDF architecture.

\page architecture NetCDF Library Architecture

\image html netcdf_architecture.png "NetCDF Architecture"
\image latex netcdf_architecture.png "NetCDF Architecture"
\image rtf netcdf_architecture.png "NetCDF Architecture"


The netCDF C-based libraries depend on a core C library and some externally developed libraries.

- NetCDF-Java is an independent implementation, not shown here
- C-based 3rd-party netCDF APIs for other languages include Python, Ruby, Perl, Fortran-2003, MATLAB, IDL, and R
- Libraries that don't support netCDF-4 include Perl and old C++
- 3rd party libraries are optional (HDF5, HDF4, zlib, szlib, pnetcdf, libcurl), depending on what features are needed and how netCDF is configured
- "Apps" in the above means applications, not mobile apps!

*/

