Comment by simoncion

When one doesn't care much at all about writing a faithful implementation of a protocol, all sorts of things become easily doable!

I'm reminded of a story from one of those early software-project-management/software-development books where the author was relating a conversation with a client that went something like this:

  Client: So, how quickly can you have this done, and how fast can the program be?
  Author: Well, tell me about your constraints and accuracy requirements and I'll try to give you answers to those questions.
  Client: Oh we don't really have any constraints and don't care much at all about accuracy.
  *Very long pause where more details are not forthcoming*
  Author: Well, in that case, I can make it very fast and get it done very quickly. It shall return the number two to all queries. I should be able to have the work done by the end of the day.
  Client: :O