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Tim Bray
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June 21, 1955
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The Purpose Isn���t What It Does
���The purpose of a system is what it does.��� Such a neat little turn of phrase; it makes you sound wise and cynical and like a person who sees through things. But it���s mostly wrong and almost always counterproductive.
A bit of background; the phrase (and let���s just say ���POSIWID���) was coined in 1979 by a British management consultant. It���s thrown around heavily; a search on my Mastodon
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“If you crank the pedantry and purism up, the Web is about URIs and REST. If you crank the controversy down, the Web is about using HTTP for your network traffic. And if you ask an actual non-geek human, the Web means there are links and forms and a “Back” button.”
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