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Re:South Carolina judges often lack formal training in the law by watwut on Saturday November 30, 2019 @03:02PM (#21671879)
> Judges interpret the law.

That is possible only if you actually know the law. If you do not know it, you cant interpret it.

So yes, people are needed to interpret the law, but not really anyone. Kinda like we need programmers, but not really anyone.

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Re:South Carolina judges often lack formal training in the law by basementcat on Saturday November 30, 2019 @03:12PM (#21671915)
It is possible for competent programmers to interpret a vaguely written specification in mutually incompatible ways.
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Re:South Carolina judges often lack formal training in the law by kibwen on Saturday November 30, 2019 @03:17PM (#21671938)
Yes, although the judges in the OP do not sound analogous to competent programmers in this example. One would expect someone trained in software to interpret software, in the same way one would expect someone trained in law to interpret law.
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Re:South Carolina judges often lack formal training in the law by _sid on Saturday November 30, 2019 @03:17PM (#21671945)
I find it hard to believe that programmers could disagree with eachother.
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