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This is like asking for plain-english compilers. IANA lawyer, and never wish to be one, but it's just a fact that legal process involves particular concepts that are represented by a specialized vocabulary.

Legislators tend to "add features" and "fix bugs" by hacking in special case handling, turning the code into a mass of hard to follow exceptions. I definitely think they do this in part because no one fires the one guy who understands the undocumented spaghetti code. But even if they placed some value on elegance and simplicity they'd still have to use some legal jargon.



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