On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 05:10:34PM -0400, Aryeh Gregor wrote:
> * The cost of access. HTTP requests have very high overhead -- set up
> network connection, pass request through a long chain of servers and
> processes, send result back -- usually on the order of a hundred
> milliseconds or more.
As soon as I read this, i realize that indeed, you guys are talking
about "an implementation of an interface to the API", not the actual
thing itself.
An API, by definition, is a declared set of call and response
interfaces to a block of core code, with defined parameter domains and
ranges.
It's not the interfaces you use to *get* to that, be it HTML, REST, or
whosoever...
Cheers,
-- jra
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