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[Petite Abeille]

> 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 2004
https://pwn.ersh.io/notes/why_specs_matter/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Pilgrim
https://web.archive.org/web/20051016203842/http://diveintomark.org/archives/2004/08/16/specs
https://github.com/dpk/diveintomark/blob/master/archive-html/74bd6e47732d711fafd1fdb131006daae30709cf.html