> It is probably more profitable to talk about RESTful systems rather than RESTful APIs, since people think API == machines talking. If it's your stance that a

> It is probably more profitable to talk about RESTful systems rather than RESTful APIs, since people think API == machines talking. If it's your stance that an interface designed to be interpreted by a program cannot be RESTful, then you could just shorten your rant to 'REST APIs cannot exist by definition'. It would save time. It's fair enough to be annoyed by words changing meaning I suppose. It also seems like your RESTful system definition would include any server serving up straight html without client side scripting.