> Lawyers wished to create a 'walled garden' for their knowledge and methods. Doctors do the same and the churches also did it. These people charge fees for acc

> Lawyers wished to create a 'walled garden' for their knowledge and methods. Doctors do the same and the churches also did it. These people charge fees for access to this knowledge and do not want easy access to the general public. And programmers do the same thing, using a secret language called "code" to make their work incomprehensible to mere mortals. /s More seriously, I've heard it stated that there are actually a lot of similarities between legalese and software code, as they're both constrained languages to meant to make certain kinds of statements more precise.