It's easy to walk on water and develop software based on specifications. If only it were frozen. - NISHIO Hirokazu's Scrapbox (Auto-translated from Japanese)

It's easy to walk on water and develop software based on specifications. If only it were frozen.

from Programming classics copy and paste

Walking on water or software development based on (technical) specification are both easy. If it is frozen. --- Edward V Berard (author of Essays on Object-Oriented Software Engineering)

Essays on Object-Oriented Software Engineering

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