- verbs - what you do. For example get, put, add, delete, send, fire ...
- nouns - what you do it to. For example employees, people, camels ...
Representational State Transfer (REST) is an architectural style which defines an uniform interface and hence it limits the use of:-
- verbs - you can only use post, get, put and delete.
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My favourite SOA is in fact Simon Orientated Architecture, which has one verb, DO, and one noun, STUFF. It is both more verb-like than traditional SOA having only one noun, and even more noun-like than REST having only one verb.
Unlike arguments based upon the relative use of grammar, I also find it has some sort of point.