Unpopular opinion: What it means for a language to “have a spec” is so ambiguous as to be meaningless in practice.
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People read specs to learn the language, to try implementing independently and then interop-testing, to settle disputes among impls. These have some value.
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Sure, but they can do that with the reference, regardless of whether it’s called a spec or not.
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