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Petite Abeille petite.abeille at gmail.com
Thu Jun 11 12:32:00 BST 2020
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On Jun 10, 2020, at 22:28, solderpunk <solderpunk at SDF.ORG> wrote:
against the spirit of the spec
Specifications are mechanisms. Tools. Syntax. To be combined in interesting and curious ways. To an end. Spirituality has nothing to do with it.
An oldie, but a goodie:
"Why specs matter"-- Mark Pilgrim, circa 2004https://pwn.ersh.io/notes/why_specs_matter/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Pilgrimhttps://web.archive.org/web/20051016203842/http://diveintomark.org/archives/2004/08/16/specshttps://github.com/dpk/diveintomark/blob/master/archive-html/74bd6e47732d711fafd1fdb131006daae30709cf.html