# Gavin Andresen
# 2013-01-02 21:37:44
# https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=134318.msg1431129#msg1431129

In my experience, developers are really good at either ignoring documentation or interpreting it in a way different than the way the author intended. @p{par}

And spec authors are really good at getting details wrong, no matter how careful they are. And they're really bad at keeping track of changes. @p{par}

That's why I spent a lot of time over the past year developing test cases and tools that you can run your code against instead of writing specs. @p{par}

I may just be cynical because I spent so much time in 1997 working on the ISO/IEC-14772-1 Official, Formal Standard. @p{brk}