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There's a Turkish saying, "a human will [use] this, a human!", to signify that the thing is so abnormal/out-of-proportion that it doesn't seem to be made for people. The verb changes based on the context. If you had made too much food for example, the verb would be "eat". I think it's a great motto for design.

Remember the Game of Thrones quote, "the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword"? I think it should also be applied to specs. Anyone who comes up with a spec must be the first responsible party to develop a parser for it. The spec doesn't get ratified unless it comes with working parser code with unit tests.

That kind of requirement might actually improve specs.



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