Comment by petcat
6 days ago
Legalese exists precisely because it is an attempt to remove doubt when it comes to matters of law.
Maybe a dialect of legalese will emerge for software engineering?
6 days ago
Legalese exists precisely because it is an attempt to remove doubt when it comes to matters of law.
Maybe a dialect of legalese will emerge for software engineering?
Legalese is nowhere near precise, and we have a whole very expensive system because it’s not precise.
It is an attempt the be precise, and to remove doubt. But you're right that doubt still creeps in.
Doubt still creeps in? The entire purpose of the Judiciary branch across all governments that possess one is the interpretation of legal documents. It’s one of the greatest sources of uncertainty in human governance.
Legalese already exists in software engineering. Several dialects of it, in fact. We call them programming languages.