Comment by JohnFen – https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37090710

I’ve actually always thought something like this:

«As a rough analogy that my lawyer told me early on, lawyers are like software engineers, and the law is like the operating system. A good lawyer writes robust “code” designed to deal with edge cases and unexpected conditions gracefully.»

Law as code, amenable to diffs and code review, and vulnerable to bugs.