Re: Hackers and Painters and Lawyers

[Shriram Krishnamurthi <address@hidden>]

Zachery Bir wrote:

> I was IMing with a friend the other day, remarking that it would be 
> nice to have more programmers in Congress - perhaps they could 
> mercilessly refactor the current U.S. Code.

But the thing that always makes these rules hard is the parts that
cross-cut the modules.  And if we believe the communities that study
AOP and separation of concerns, then no amount of refactoring is going
to eliminate these cross-cuts.

Shriram