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> short sentences are prone to misinterpretation Exactly. That's why laws or contracts written by lawyers are so verbose. Think of a rent contract or a softwar

• kroltan 6y ago
  Which is why I compared to legalese rather than arbitrary natural-language. My argument would be that legalese with its strict "May" "Should"s and all that could be sufficiently similar to a (verbose) programming language. Anecdotally, I certainly have entered "debugging" mode when trying to check if a specific clause of a contract was applicable to my situation before, rather than trying to interpret it liberally. Of course, anecdote, and only demonstrates that the (my) brain _can_ operate "programmingly" when reading legalese, not that it does so "naturally".