I would have thought that "plain-English contracts" would suffer from some of the same issues of trying to simplify programming - in order to write a spec accur

I would have thought that "plain-English contracts" would suffer from some of the same issues of trying to simplify programming - in order to write a spec accurate enough to turn into a program, you end up writing a program. Legal loopholes are big business and making contracts specific enough that they avoid serious loopholes would surely require the high level of complexity used in modern contract writing.