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![Alteration of the "STOP DOING MATH" meme, edited to the following:
STOP DOING SPECS
- SOFTWARE WAS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE STRICTLY DEFINED
- YEARS OF SPEC WRITING yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for the AUGMENTED BACKUS-NAUR FORM
- Wanted to establish standards anyway for a laugh? We had a tool for that: It was called "MANPAGES"
- "The container of a navigable navigable is the navigable container whose content navigable is navigable" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged
LOOK at what Spec Authors have been demanding your Respect for all this time, with all the RFCs & working groups we built for them
(This is REAL Spec, done by REAL Spec Authors):
[Screenshot of the introduction to Annex K of the ISO/IEC 9899:2024 working draft]
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[Screenshot of the purchase page for IEEE 802.11-2024, showing a price of $913]
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[Drawing of two carrier pigeons standing side by side]
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"Hello I would like [photo of a clothespin-based DHCP implementation info page] IPs please"
They have played us for absolute fools](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x2zlacl3cusn5lllpdirnaxu/bafkreiejo6zm4pzmww44dvoaqj4jtwl7nmhfawcj54lujqglftann7aisq)
