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So we're at the point now that legal documents need comments to be human readable. I wonder how long it will be until they look like perl.
by noonespecial 11y ago
So we're at the point now that legal documents need comments to be human readable. I wonder how long it will be until they look like perl.
- hmahncke 11y agoOne company - http://www.legalese.io/turing.html http://www.legalese.io/turing.html - is working on this, perhaps inspired by Charles Stross' comments on this idea.
- phyllostachys 11y agoOh man! I was thinking about the whole legal language should be something of a formal language a little less than a year ago. I'm glad someone is doing something along those lines.
- djhn 11y ago> So we're at the point now Has that not been the case for most of our history? Prior to the 20th Century most humans couldn't read legal documents of their time because they couldn't read. There's a reason "scribe" was a profession. As for the 20th century, is there any evidence that legal documents were more legible earlier than they are now?