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Try reading a piece of legislation vs a piece of technical documentation and see who the better communicator is.
by cjoh 16y ago
Try reading a piece of legislation vs a piece of technical documentation and see who the better communicator is.
- lionhearted 16y ago> Try reading a piece of legislation vs a piece of technical documentation and see who the better communicator is. The confusing, indecipherable, loophole-ridden mess is a feature, not a bug. That's the typical legislator's monetization strategy.
- edanm 16y agoYes, but consider that legislation is like a piece of code going into a legacy system that's been around for over 200 years, and is supposed to be as accurate as computer code in what it means. It is not an easy system.
- ultrasaurus 16y agoIt might be a faulty assumption to compare legislation to code written for maintainability (or "as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live") I tend to think of it as code written for job security: misnamed functions, buggy and non-existent commas. Testing by one or two WorksForMe-esque court cases.