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kevinsd on June 25, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Cool URIs don't change.

It is like asking a developer not to change API. Or keep the old version.

noamsml on June 25, 2012 [–]

And companies that have millions of developers making money off their APIs (and, in one way or another, paying some dividend back to the API creators) indeed do tend to keep their APIs fairly backwards-compatible, with some notable exceptions.

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