It 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 violen

It 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.