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by bct 4954 days ago
> Making a call to a server should be like calling a function anywhere else

You can make calling a function on a remote machine look and seem (superficially) like calling a local function, but they will never have similar behaviour. A network is very different from a motherboard.

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2009/05/25/HTTP-and-t...