I can appreciate making web services a lot simpler than horseshit like SOAP. If all we want to do is get data in and out, let's do it simply and without a bunch

I can appreciate making web services a lot simpler than horseshit like SOAP. If all we want to do is get data in and out, let's do it simply and without a bunch of extra ceremony. I can appreciate the notion of using concepts we've already had forever in HTTP rather than reinventing them, poorly. Beyond good common-sense things like this, REST seems to involve a lot of people yelling about whether something is or is not REST.