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So law is in a way programming?
by eternauta3k 12y ago
So law is in a way programming?
- hkmurakami 12y agoThat's one reason why the tax code is a perfect domain for computer assistance (read: Intuit).
- AngrySkillzz 12y agoIt's writing (legal) code that you can run on judges.
- russellallen 12y agoLol. For most lawyers out drafting contracts, we're still in the days of mainframes. We write code by hand which will probably never be run on a real judge, but we hope we haven't made any bugs.
- Lawtonfogle 12y agoThe fun part is that there is a positive correlation between having bugs and having your code run on a judge.
- arethuza 12y agoExcept that very little of the code (e.g. contracts) that get written ever run and the people who debug the code (litigators) aren't the same people who wrote it in the first place. Also the people who wanted the code written in the first place have never actually read it are convinced it says something different to what it actually does say.... It would be an interesting project to create an artificial court/judge into which you feed a contract and an argument and get a response out.
- mcdougle 12y agoSo it's like programming?
- arethuza 12y agoProgramming where you never run your code.
- Lawtonfogle 12y agoLike programming, but far worse.