Re: REST impact paper

Looks like a cool list.  Have to study it.

We should consider theory vs. practice, and practice vs. commercial feasibility / success vs. ubiquity vs. free/wide use 
separately.  Frequently linked, but they happen in different waves, sometimes widely separated, so it would be even more muddled to 
be tracked in one framework.

Nothing is very clean.  But some points are clear and others clear enough to consider.  Besides REST, there are plenty of examples, 
to wit: IETF, Jon Postel etc.  Even an idea as simple as this was a turning point (regardless if it was from a single person or a 
general consensus of the time, as often happens):

"Be conservative in what you send and liberal in what you accept"

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4677

In computing, politics, and other areas, there are plenty of singular concepts that bifurcate groups and/or time periods.  It would 
be interesting to catalog those.  A lot of successful companies started with a concept that was new or implemented in a new way.


More important than the curiosities of history would be usability as a roadmap of concepts, plateaus of sophistication, and foibles 
that one should be aware of.  I use many such principles every day, mostly as reflex now.  We could briefly summarize before and 
after for internalization justification.

Each of us only knows a subset, and newbies know nothing.  A good architecture book covers a lot, but usually without context of the 
turning points and their direct and indirect meaning.  It would be helpful to have something like a Pirate Code for various branches 
of technology.

http://mentalfloss.com/article/58900/11-rules-actual-pirate-code
http://pirates.wikia.com/wiki/Code_of_the_Pirate_Brethren  Haha
http://pirates.wikia.com/wiki/Pirata_Codex  Jaja

Coding Codex?

Stephen

On 9/7/17 12:56 PM, Gregory Alan Bolcer wrote:
> Fill us in.  I don't think computing, science, or software is that clean.
>
> I grew up (professionally) with grand computing challenges.
> http://www.grids.ac.uk/Complex/grand_challenges/
>
> I don't think these are the same ones, but it's an interesting list.
> My favorite:  Exploiting division by zero;
>
> Greg
>
> On 9/7/2017 10:21 AM, Stephen D. Williams wrote:
>> There are some interesting problems with also capturing the temporality of things, including things that sped up or held back 
>> invention / adoption.  I can see a couple possibilities.
> _

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