You want to write the specs so that everybody does in fact know what this piece of code is doing, and you're writing it each time around.

但是你得养成良好的习惯和编程风格,你得撰写规范说明从而保证,每个人都知道这段代码是干什么的。

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Look, part of the reason I'm flaming at you is, something like square root, it seems dumb to write specs on it. Everybody knows what this is going to do. But you want to get into that discipline of good hygiene, good style.

也是非常重要的，我在这里说的,一些理由就是像平方根,为它写规范听上去很傻,每个人都知道它是干什么的。

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In order to complete the founding of the city, it was necessary to establish its gods and ensure proper respect for the law. Numa was the bringer of the Roman legal codes respecting religion, proper observances and the like.

为了完成重建城市的任务，建立起它的众神体制并且保证人们对于法律的,恰当尊重是必要的，Numa是为罗马带来,法典的人，这种法典崇尚宗教，适宜的规范，诸如此类。

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