Why do you equate working software with correctness? Software that works is never correct by any definition of correctness. Because working software is a system that exists in the real world and therefore can never have a specification against it.
> Why do you equate working software with correctness?
Because the original author neglected to provide an adequate definition of correctness, thereby inspiring an epic HN flamewar as people now must run around endlessly debating semantics. :P
Sometimes people say things that might not be literally true or even "true in spirit", not because they are lying liars who love to lie, but because relating an exaggeration or a caricature or some other sort of not-totally-true thing will have a better effect on their audience than the strict truth would have. As we're now up to 17 comments you've made here emphasizing the skepticism you have for TFA's message, it seems that you value the "correct" more than the "simple". It could be that you are in the intended audience for TFA...
