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Spolsky on Writing Specs

The reason you write a spec is not to solve every possible problem in advance: the reason you write a spec is to solve as many problems as you possibly can in advance so that you minimize the number of surprises that come up during development.
--Joel Spolsky - talking about Copilot.com spec

Reference:
Blog entry about The Project Aardvark Spec by Joel Spolsky

Related:
The original spec (pdf) by Joel Spolsky


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