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Re:My unusual hobby by inopinatus on Saturday November 25, 2017 @05:14PM (#15778290)
The law is not a programming language. Believing so is a common misconception amongst engineers, but representing it as such is likely (as I have said in this forum before) to lead to disappointment, frustration, anger, needless bickering, extended conflict, and vexatiously long, hard to read, and mostly unenforceable contracts.
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Re:My unusual hobby by amazingman on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @03:41AM (#15850600)
It’s a useful metaphor, if used judiciously. The law may not be programming, but it could be argued that it is engineering.
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Re:My unusual hobby by mcguire on Saturday November 25, 2017 @09:24PM (#15779141)
... like a lot of meetings with engineers. Particularly standards meetings.
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