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0 pointshyperhopper3y ago0 comments

Then they can't call it a REST API: it's not programmatic, so it's not an API

Aka somebody pulled some ancient obscure definition out of nowhere that just means _everybody_ is wrong.

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It's only obscure for people who arrived at the scene long after the distortion of terms already took place, and never studied where the terminology comes from.

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0 pointshyperhopper3y ago0 comments

Then they can't call it a REST API: it's not programmatic, so it's not an API

Aka somebody pulled some ancient obscure definition out of nowhere that just means _everybody_ is wrong.

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hsn9153y ago

It's only obscure for people who arrived at the scene long after the distortion of terms already took place, and never studied where the terminology comes from.

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