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It says a sufficiently detailed spec is code. Your spec lacks details that could be added.
by 9rx 7mo ago
It says a sufficiently detailed spec is code. Your spec lacks details that could be added.
- quotemstr 7mo agoIf you're defining "spec" that way, the word is meaningless. The point of a spec is what it doesn't say.
- 9rx 7mo agoIt's turtles all the way down. If you write your spec in C you can get pretty detailed into how sin is implemented, but not fully. The compiler is going to take your spec and still do things with it that you didn't say, like optimize it in ways you never imagined possible. If "spec" doesn't imply that, what does it mean to you? Or maybe you are suggesting that C "code" isn't code[1] either? [1] By the original definition of code that is actually quite true, but I think we can agree the term, as normally used, has evolved over the years?