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> with advance knowledge of the structure

Wouldn't advance knowledge of the structure do away with the benefit of self-describing messages?

I assert that, without strong AI or simply passing it along to humans (as with HTML) REST is largely wasted on code.



“bot designed with advance knowledge...” was an unfortunate typo for “not designed with advance knowledge...”

Yes, advance knowledge makes self-description superfluous.


Bots can crawl a link graph, but that seems to me to be a relatively primitive use of a uniform interface when compared with a human interacting with a hypermedia system.

Does that strike you as well?




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