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Programmers like to plan for every possible state and define things in the most technical, specific way possible. Legislation is written contrariwise, which ca
by Andrex 8y ago
Programmers like to plan for every possible state and define things in the most technical, specific way possible.
Legislation is written contrariwise, which can seem baffling to programmers unfamiliar with the system.
- fhrow4484 8y agoAre you talking about directives in the E.U.? Or the law of a specific E.U. country? It doesn't seem to be like this in the US. If you look at laws in the US, they try to define every word and every situation with a lot of cases. Vagueness seems to be avoided, and I'd say it actually doesn't seem too unfamiliar to programmers if used to the jargon