On Wed, 24 Oct 2012, Paul T. Bauman wrote: > (If everyone is done playing out their lawyer fantasy...)
Lawyers have to deal with around 20 million lines of poorly-written "library code" in US laws, plus all the accreted case law interpreting the most ambiguous parts, plus whatever contract terms they get handed; they have limited authority to refactor the latter and no authority to refactor either of the former; there's no equivalent of unit testing, compile-time warnings, or debuggers; and even the highest justices in the country frequently find themselves unable to come to agreement about the correct interpretations of even the most fundamental and straightforwardly-worded clauses. Lawyers used to get decently compensated for the trouble, but that led to a glut and now the job prospects for all but the top quintile or two are sinking. This is a fantasy only in the same sense that Dante's Inferno was a fantasy. --- Roy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct _______________________________________________ Libmesh-devel mailing list Libmesh-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libmesh-devel
