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> with advance knowledge of the structure Wouldn't advance knowledge of the structure do away with the benefit of self-describing messages? I assert that, wit
by recursivedoubts 5y ago
> with advance knowledge of the structure
Wouldn't advance knowledge of the structure do away with the benefit of self-describing messages?
I assert that, without strong AI or simply passing it along to humans (as with HTML) REST is largely wasted on code.
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- dragonwriter 5y ago“bot designed with advance knowledge...” was an unfortunate typo for “not designed with advance knowledge...” Yes, advance knowledge makes self-description superfluous.
- recursivedoubts 5y agoBots can crawl a link graph, but that seems to me to be a relatively primitive use of a uniform interface when compared with a human interacting with a hypermedia system. Does that strike you as well?