Even better if the specification is actually executable code instead of pages of prose.

如果该规格是可执行的代码而非文字说明，那更就好了。

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Under the older specification, the application code had to be written specifically for queues or topics because the classes themselves were domain-specific.

在旧的规范下，必须专门为队列或主题编写应用程序代码，因为类本身是特定于域的。

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"It's a world like 'insert product specification, receive code,'" he says.

“那是个'输入产品规格，产出代码'的世界，”他说。

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And notice, by the way, if I do that, and I type sqrt and open the paren, ah-ha! It shows me what the creator, in this case actually I stole this from John so what Professor Guttag put up as his specification for this piece of code.

它需要什么养的输入和其它我想传达的信息，如果我这么做了，我将会到这里打上sqrt并且加上括号，啊哈！这里告诉我这段程序的创建者,事实上这是我是从约翰那里偷来的,所以也就是Guttag教授在它的。

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