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1 point by aw 5223 days ago | link | parent

That's cool. It's a neat idea that by default (if there isn't an explicit reason why you have to do something else), all interfaces can be HTTP, and as a bonus use JSON as your data interchange format...


1 point by thaddeus 5223 days ago | link

Exactly. The concept is great. Even now when I am starting to learn haskell, the first thing I am doing checking out haskells' JSON parser to communicate via HTTP. Conceptually I can keep doing this and communicate easily across any language. And since SQL to URL is so basic I can re-use/apply dbslayer to any language too.

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1 point by aw 5222 days ago | link

Aha, I knew I'd seen some post that talked about this, and I found it: http://timothyfitz.wordpress.com/2009/02/12/why-http/

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