http://blogs.gartner.com/benoit_lheureux/2009/03/17/saas-apis-are-retro-%E2%80%93-you-know-just-like-edi/

As the guy who gets to read really long EDI specs I can emphasize with this post. Even more amusing was the fact that I had implemented the 48 page Target 850 purchase… and am in the middle of reading and implementing the Taleo API docs. It was like this blog post was written for me!