& XSLT On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 20:06 -0400, Michael Champion wrote:
>  On Apr 5, 2005 7:11 PM, Bill de hÓra <bill.dehora@[...].com> wrote:
>  > > *if* your users do far more read operations than create/update/delete
>  > > operations, and there is a high probability that a document that is
>  > > retrieved once will be requested again soon..  Very true on the Web.
>  > > Not true for data enty applications.  Nightmarishly difficult in the
>  > > distributed read/write case.
>  > 
>  > Don't understand the last bit - nightmarishly difficult how? 
>  
>  I was thinking of the quote attributed to Phil Karlton
>  (http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200001/msg00170.html) "There
>  are only two hard problems in computer science, cache invalidation and
>  naming things."
>  
>   Hmm, REST assumes that both of them have been solved <duck>.

Oh brother.  So does:

relational DBMS
The Internet
The Web

[snip 1000 other examples]

and *drum roll please*

Wizard Web Services (i.e. the sort you advocate)

It's a miracle we get *anything* accomplished, despite hard problems,
eh?


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