Dave says that he may have a point.

Me? It's scary to hear someone say something so bold, especially when it's Microsoft.

The crux of the argument seems to be that HTTP is limitted by being RPC-ish, and that any attempt to handle, say, a long running calculation is at best a hack.

Am I missing something? It seems to me that RPC doesn't need to be a "do something and give me the answer before I return" process. The actual call could mean "Start working on this calculation, and when you are done, drop the answer off here." The limitation seems to be the assumption that only one side can recieve RPC requests. If both sides can, where's the problem?

Or is this just one of the 'hacks' that Don Box is talking about?

Maybe I'm just not sophisticated enough to see it.

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I have loved both Lisp and Python. I still love Lisp, but am using Python more.

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