This is an interesting analogy. However, I would argue that Law is less constrained by the laws of nature. If a program is broken, even the best programmer in

This is an interesting analogy. However, I would argue that Law is less constrained by the laws of nature. If a program is broken, even the best programmer in the world may not be able to fix it if they can't diagnose the underlying problem. Whereas in law; there is no such problem. If a law is found to be bad, you change it. Most reasonably competent lawyers could come up with a solution. Not to say that creativity and intelligence isn't required, the constraints are just different. (You do hit the laws of nature at some point, but I believe there are guardrails in law that prevent this from happening; e.g. no judge will sentence a person to run a million miles even if some combination of inane laws may require that as punishment).