On 11/07/2011 09:09 AM, Pekka Enberg wrote: >> We are obviously also using specifications but as you damn well should >> know, specifications don't matter nearly as much as working code. On Mon, 7 Nov 2011, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > Specifications matter much more than working code. Quirks are a fact of life > but should always come second. To quote Linus: And I have seen _lots_ of total crap work that was based on specs. It's _the_ single worst way to write software, because it by definition means that the software was written to match theory, not reality. [ http://kerneltrap.org/node/5725 ] So no, I don't agree with you at all. Pekka