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Or it might be as easy as writing a compiler. These things are hard to prejudge.

• Animus7 15y ago
  Compiler writing is easy? No. (I've built compilers for large subsets of C and Java, as well as my own languages) Lord help you if you try to write a perfectly conforming compiler for C++ (has it ever been done?), and the U.S. legal system is at least an order of magnitude more complex than that.
  • a3camero 15y ago
    To make that task even more complicated, people don't agree on what many of the rules are. Your "law compiler" would have to take in input and have output that's maybe this, or more likely this, but it could also be this...
  • calcnerd256 15y ago
    Compiler writing isn't the easiest thing in the world by any stretch, but it's something that we manage to achieve all the time, unlike the mythical "program to do my programming" we are so quick to imagine.