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If a spec isn't vague, incomplete and wrong then you could just make a compiler that compiled the spec into working code and skip the programmer.

The job of a programmer is to map the vague notion of what the software should do, which is reflected in the spec, into a concrete, internally consistent set of instructions to the computer.



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