Re: SOAP and State (was: Re: No consensus on draft findings on Unsafe Methods (whenToUseGet-7)) from Gavin Thomas Nicol on 2002-04-27 (www-tag@w3.org from April 2002)

From: Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn@rbii.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 00:44:38 -0400
To: www-tag@w3.org
Message-Id: <200204270434.g3R4YI300521@joat.prv.ri.meganet.net>

On Thursday 25 April 2002 07:56 pm, Paul Prescod wrote:
> Do you think that maybe Joel is on to something here? Nobody has
> ever deployed a programming language, remote procedure system,
> database or programming runtime without *SOME SUPPORT FOR REFERENCES
> TO STATE FRAGMENTS*.

You don't need to refer to state...combinators being a prime 
example. I would further argue that a lot of the success of the web is 
due to the lack of state.... and that many issues are caused by 
(poorly) adding state. There's also no reason why a SOAP invocation 
couldn't, in effect, return a continuation.

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