[edit] tl;dr: it's the reason there's now an Ethereum Classic, and we learned that Code is Law and trustlessness only applies to grandma's savings, not Vitaliks.

[1] https://www.coindesk.com/learn/2016/06/25/understanding-the-...

Yep. Legal jargon IRL is about as close as you get IRL to "code", with roughly 1,000 years of legal development underlying common law and modern legal systems to inform a style of language that is practically its own dialect.

Quite a bit of it has developed over the centuries in an effort to eliminate potential ambiguities in things like contracts so there would be no question about how the legal instrument should be executed.

This is why, to the butt of many jokes & frustrations, legalese is so extremely verbose & dense. Eliminating ambiguities or unintentional side effects or loopholes is extremely difficult.

Code appears to be little different in this respect: Implementing code that effectively says "don't manipulate the market in a way that makes us lose $millions" is not a straightforward task.

This is the lesson a lot of people fail to learn from watching. They seem to have to experience it.

Let to an ETH hard fork into -> (ETH Classic - still traded, and ETH)