A sufficiently detailed spec is code

Re:A sufficiently detailed spec is code by est on Thursday March 19, 2026 @12:58AM (#47435145)

> by creating their own more technical dialect of English

Ah, the Lisp curse. Here we go again.

coincidently, the 80s AI bubble crashed partly because Lisp dialetcts aren't inter-changable.

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Re:A sufficiently detailed spec is code by Dylan16807 on Thursday March 19, 2026 @01:19AM (#47435265)

Lisp doesn't get to claim all bad accidental programming languages are simply failing to be it, I don't care how cute that one quote is.

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Re:A sufficiently detailed spec is code by reverius42 on Thursday March 19, 2026 @01:15AM (#47435244)

I bet a modern LLM could inter-change them pretty easily.

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Re:A sufficiently detailed spec is code by est on Thursday March 19, 2026 @01:23AM (#47435284)

trained on public data, yes.

But some random in-house DSL? Doubt it.

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