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by nroach 2670 days ago
Given the motivation to read and learn, a developer can read and modify legal 'code' just as easily as a lawyer can read and modify software 'code'. The question is what exceptions are thrown at compile time? In most SW stacks, you find out where your errors are pretty quickly. Unfortunately with legal code, "compile time" may not occur until the code is executed in a court of law. Are you sure that's when you want to do your debugging?