| ▲ | fnord77 3 months ago | |
I wonder why the legal profession sticks to natural language | ||
| ▲ | RainyDayTmrw 3 months ago | parent | next [-] | |
They don't, though. Plenty of words in law mean something precise but utterly detached from the vernacular meaning. Law language is effectively a separate, more precise language, that happens to share some parts with the parent language. | ||
| ▲ | dzamo_norton 3 months ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
There was that "smart contract" idea back when immutable distributed ledgers were in fashion. I still struggle to see the approach being workable for anything more complicated (and muddied) than Hello World level contracts. | ||
| ▲ | timacles 3 months ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
Because law isn’t a fixed entity, it is a suggestion for the navigation of an infinite wiring | ||
| ▲ | me-vs-cat 3 months ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Backwards compatibility works differently there, and legalese has not exactly evolved naturally. | ||