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if the spec is truly the source, it's because you've invented a formal programming language that evaluates the spec.

Anything short of that and the spec is the spec, the source is the source.

Now you get to learn about what good code looks like, like the rest of us!

With that, I was referring to the definition in the article: "The spec is the main source file over time, and only the spec is edited by the human, the human never touches the code". That's how Specific works.

And I think that opens up a very interesting question about quality. If the human never touches the code, then "good code" gets replaced with "good specs" instead, and I don't think anybody knows what constitutes good specs in that context right now!

That is just so at odds with my way of thinking. The code is the spec -- the only spec that matters. The only way of describing the behavior that everyone can agree on the meaning of.

A design document can add color, but only the code tells you what the application does

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