[TUHS] Documentation (was On Bloat and the Idea of Small Specialized Tools)

Yeechang Lee ylee at columbia.edu
Tue May 21 04:38:06 AEST 2024


Paul Winalski says:
> Sometimes in the process of doing that youd stop and think, "wait a
> minute--we don't really want it doing that".  Or you'd find that you
> bhad difficulty articulating exactly how a particular feature
> behaves.  That's a red flag that you've designed the feature to be
> too obscure and complex, or that there's something flat-out wrong
> with it.

My understanding is that an unexpected result of the requirement to draft all federal laws in Canada in both English and French is something similar: The discussion process ensuring that a bill's meaning is identical in both languages helps rid the text of ambiguities and errors regardless of language.


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