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plural RESTafarians
(computing, slang) A programmer who uses REST (Representational State Transfer). quotations
The RESTafarians — or REST zealots — are probably right that a RESTful approach is best for retrieving information, but it is obviously inappropriate whenever the remote procedure call has side effects.
2005, David Paul Megginson, Imperfect XML: Rants, Raves, Tips, and Tricks, page 124