I'm collecting popular misconceptions about REST. Got some of your own? Please let me know using #notrest. I'll follow up with a few.
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@stilkov Not sure what you're looking for but IMO the idea that REST is "better" or "more powerful" than RPC is misguided. #notrest
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Replying to @rolandbouman
@rolandbouman I don't think it's a misconception that REST is “better” than RPC (depending on what you mean by RPC, of course)

Feb 28, 2013 · 7:37 AM UTC

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@stilkov ...procedure call as a particular resource operation, is far from straightforward. RPC is more general, therefore more powerful.
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@rolandbouman Understood, and strongly disagreed with. More than will fit in 140 characters.
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@stilkov Remote procedure calls. My reasoning is that REST typically tries to express every action in terms of PUT/GET/POST/DELETE.
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@stilkov I can easily express such resource operations as a particular kind of procedure call. The reverse, expressing an arbitrary ...