Roy Fielding's Misappropriated REST Dissertation (2020)
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This piece and conversation makes me sad. As someone who both wrote a (client-side) web browser in the 1990s and at the time also built server side HTTP systems, the piece gets it almost entirely wrong, and the degree of misguidedness in the HN comments is almost worse. But I guess that is how things go. Sigh. The competitor to ReST (representational state transfer) was not SOAP. It was and is RPC, and by extension, object oriented languages. The brilliant…
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- Total points
- 352
- Total comments
- 387
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-06-28 | Roy Fielding's Misappropriated REST DissertationFirst breakout | zdw | 151 | 179 |
| 2021-10-27 | Roy Fielding's Misappropriated REST Dissertation (2020)Best thread · Latest 20+ point return | fagnerbrack | 197 | 208 |
| 2023-03-19 | Roy Fielding's Misappropriated REST Dissertation | rbanffy | 2 | 0 |
| 2024-04-12 | Tomorrow's FBI Mixer | listenlight | 1 | 0 |
| 2026-04-15 | Roy Fielding's Misappropriated REST Dissertation (2020) | locknitpicker | 1 | 0 |