Comment by Paracompact

> It's far from perfect of course, but it's not like legislation just consists of a bunch of random symbols that are later imbued with meaning by a court operating in a vacuum.

Isn't this exactly what happened? A court of computer laypeople reached for Merriam-Webster in order to disambiguate a sample of programmer argot that was written into law by another group of computer laypeople. The legal profession isn't just dirty, it seems doomed to defeat itself in even its most rigorous practice.