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Re:CatalaLang/catala: Programming language for law specifica... by 0x9b on Sunday September 17, 2023 @04:24PM (#37548965)
Games are activities bound by rules. Laws are rules for government/governed.

AFAIK There's not really a programming language specific for describing how players interact in a game, so although there's no reason you couldn't implement it in any old programming language. I guess the same thing could be said of the law too until Catala.

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Re:CatalaLang/catala: Programming language for law specifica... by altair8800 on Sunday September 17, 2023 @04:55PM (#37549212)
Wouldn’t that just be writing test cases against the business logic of your game?
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Re:CatalaLang/catala: Programming language for law specifica... by Martinussen on Sunday September 17, 2023 @06:19PM (#37549869)
I assume they're talking about tabletop/board games and such, not video games.
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Re:CatalaLang/catala: Programming language for law specifica... by GolDDranks on Monday September 18, 2023 @12:53AM (#37552377)
Ahh, that was the context I was missing. Indeed, makes sense for board games.
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