Re:Ethereum from scratch – Part 1: Ping
by erikpukinskis on Friday July 21, 2017 @08:50PM
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Huh? Lawyers have done an exceptional job. There are huge swaths of activity around which there is consensus about legal dogma.
And huge swaths of activity where programmers have laid out clear deterministic expectations.
If you're saying lawyers have failed to specify the legal ramifications of All Possible Activity then... Sure. So? Even if Ethereum only works for one single narrowly defined contract, it could be immensely useful.
The question for me isn't "where could it fall short" but "where might it measure up?"
The interesting question is whether a language can be design which allows the important domain-relevant requirements to written down in an understandable way and also proved rigorously.
So far neither lawyers nor programmers have done a very good job of this in their respective field. Watching people trying to do it in both fields simultaneously sounds like popcorn time to me.