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Subject: Re: The usefulness of lawyers - (nf)
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Date: Fri, 26-Aug-83 08:45:58 EDT
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inmet!porges    Aug 25 18:15:00 1983

	As regards why laws aren't just rewritten, "unlike programs"....for
understandable reasons that also have computer analogues.  Laws aren't really
like programs, they are interfaces.  If you change the interface, suddenly a
whole lot of stuff will stop working.  Similarly, if you change laws, people
who used to happy with old laws will bitch about it.  In other words, the
IRS tax code may be changing in a horrobly complex but upward-compatible way,
which is why it looks like OS/370.
	And then again, maybe not.