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by zzbzq 2899 days ago
Despite the architectural principals, it's named REST--REpresentational State Transfer. It's really hard to twist and contrive a situation in which "REpresentational State" is not CRUD. It can be done, but it's awkward. As soon as you're doing non-CRUD operations, it's really hard to model them as representations of state, and it's sometimes very unpleasant to use APIs where the designers tried too hard to make the peg fit.