A software maker doesn't need to define their software exhaustively
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Exhaustive definition is not necessary Now, if the spec does define everything about how the program is going to behave, then, lo and behold, it contains all the information necessary to generate the program! And now certain geeks go off to a very dark place where they start thinking about automatically compiling specs into programs, and they start to think that they’ve just invented a way to program computers without programming.
A software maker doesn't need to define their software exhaustively
A software maker doesn't need to define their…
A software maker doesn't need to define their software exhaustively
Exhaustive definition is not necessary Now, if the spec does define everything about how the program is going to behave, then, lo and behold, it contains all the information necessary to generate the program! And now certain geeks go off to a very dark place where they start thinking about automatically compiling specs into programs, and they start to think that they’ve just invented a way to program computers without programming.