In this case, it did. The requirement is clearly specified in the top answer:

if you invoke man after midnight it should print "gimme gimme gimme", because of the Abba song called "Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight"

You might not agree that that's a good requirement. Others' requirements aren't always aligned with yours :)

Have you never worked for anyone before? The software I make is always expected to do more than what the requirements stated.

This is Hacker News, not IBM Suits News

Not a great motto for Emacs (ORG-Mode, Calc, Info reader, Doctor, IRC, Web, directory browser/editor, shell, games, email, NNTP, text adventures, SSH/FTP/whatever integration...) or Nyxt (complex functions for bookmarking and making discrete-math like graphs on info, scrapping features, shortcut keys for links, and so on.)

Resistance is futile

My requirement for all software: make me smile :)

Requirement fulfilled, under budget too :))

> Software should fulfill its requirements and do nothing more.

And shall be _tested_ _before_ delivery.

I know, it's expensive ... /s