postel's law

/P AA1 S T AH0 L EH0 S L AO0/
noun
  1. 1

    (software engineering) The design principle that software should be conservative as to its own behaviour (i.e. strictly compliant with specifications) but liberal in the behaviour it tolerates from other systems.

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