URL: Universal Noun  # 11 Aug 2010

Ryan Tomayko in How I Explained REST to My Wife:

“Machines don’t have a universal noun – that’s why they suck. Every programming language, database, or other kind of system has a different way of talking about nouns. That’s why the URL is so important. It let’s all of these systems tell each other about each other’s nouns.”

(REST as in Representational State Transfer.)

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