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This works because of legal precedent. The equivalent in code is pre-existing libraries, and miles of them. But the law has highly developed ways of ridding it
by Earw0rm 5y ago
This works because of legal precedent.
The equivalent in code is pre-existing libraries, and miles of them. But the law has highly developed ways of ridding itself of cruft and tech debt over time, in a way that lib dependencies really don't.
- shkkmo 5y agoLegal precedent is a method for defining laws, not a requirement of a legal system. It is absolutely not essential to solve issues of incomplete, ambiguous, or invalid contracts. The key factor is: human judgment