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dns_snektoday at 7:57 AM0 repliesview on HN

I'm not, I'm thinking of poorly engineered systems that display buggy, unintended behaviors at runtime.

> observably in compliance with the spec

That's so easy to say and so incredibly hard to implement! Most unintended behaviors will never end up being prohibited/defined in the specification written by non-programmers.

The act of translating requirements from human language into well-defined semantics is what programming is.