[WhitneyLand]

Not sure why you think that’s not rest. Because Roy Fielding wrote a paper that most people don’t care about?

Language isn’t controlled by a single authority or the first person to use a term. Words mean what people use them to mean. You can complain that it’s not the ‘proper’ definition, but if the majority of people use it a certain way, that becomes the definition in practice.

edit: Fielding not Crawford (thx ackfoobar)

[ackfoobar]

Similarly Java falls outside of Alan Kay's definition of OOP. But unlike Roy Fielding's ReST, I don't see many people bringing that up.