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• Subject: Re: ANN: Building Web Services the REST Way
• From: Mike Champion <mc@x...>
• Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2002 00:06:14 -0400
• In-reply-to: <3D23C5FD.8060109@d...>

7/3/2002 11:50:21 PM, Rich Salz <rsalz@d...> wrote:


>I think it is important to distinguish between "the Web works because it 
>is a RESTful architecture" and "the web works; its architecture is 
>thus..."  The latter formulation admits the possibility that, for 
>example, an awful lot of effort made something mediocre work.

That's an awfully interesting question.  The Web is allegedly living proof for a number of pet 
theories -- REST, the network effect, the 80/20 rule, memetic contagion, emergence, etc.  I wonder 
which really were necessary, and if any were sufficient, conditions?

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