There are so many great books on refactoring legacy codebases that tech people have read and adopted at work and then promptly forget about when reasoning about the regulatory codebase.
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Imagine what a mess your codebase would be if you never deleted or refactored legacy code and instead treated it as append-only with fixes and attempted improvements perpetually layered on top. That’s how regulation works.https://twitter.com/ewarren/status/1182685137470967808 …
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I've been riding the law-as-software hobby horse for a few years now, and a corallary of that analogy is that lawmakers have a lot to learn from programming best practices
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Is there already something like APOSD for law?https://twitter.com/renschler/status/1085230465433460736?s=21 …
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In Italy we have a ministry for legislative simplification. (It’s not very effective AFAIK but it’s a nice idea.)
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Imagine what a mess your company would be if you never added new features because you were just constantly refactoring the existing codebase!
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