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There is a major difference between the two: computers are dumb.

As a human, I can usually communicate with someone who uses a dialect or makes language errors. Computers are much worse at doing that, they basically need to know about every standard and non-standard behavior to correctly handle it. As such there is a very good reason for standards and thus standard bodies to exist.



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