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Your notion of correct does not apply to everyone: for many of my projects, the implementation that goes against the spec but has higher traction is implemented correctly, and the implementation that follows the spec but has lower traction is implemented incorrectly. The spec is just someone's idea of what will have the highest traction - it doesn't make code that follows it correct.


No, you just don't understand the definition of correctness as it relates to software. Correctness -- like safety -- is formally defined. You might want to look it up.




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