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We programmers, I think, tend to misunderstand the legal system, imagining that laws are like code — or that they •should• be like code, and the problem with them is that they’re insufficiently precise.

That’s wildly incorrect.

The whole •point• of the law is that it’s ambiguous and interpreted by humans. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: “The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience.”

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