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by john_b 4361 days ago
The numerous compilers (courts) for this language frequently produce different and conflicting results, a situation which cannot be fixed but merely worked around by adopting the result of a master compiler as the authoritative version. The compilation process is also quite slow and very expensive.

So if legalese can be considered a precise, formal language, it must be considered one with an extraordinary amount of undefined behavior.