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Law is code
- To: lojban-list@lojban.org
- Subject: Law is code
- From: "Matt Arnold" <matt.mattarn@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 20:24:12 -0400
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http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/08/code_looks_like.html is of
interest to many Lojbanists for the following conclusion. -Eppcott
"Legalese is a massively structured dialect. Symbols appear in very
distinct patterns that are more reminiscent of machine code than text.
Quite clearly, we can see that US Code is appropriately named since it
has more in common with kernel32.dll than the contents of Project
Gutenberg. Not only is code law, but law is code: a highly structured
set of instructions that allows a state machine to function, ideally
without any ambiguity. Lessig was right!"