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Tangurena2today at 2:42 PM1 replyview on HN

Maintenance will be forever. Tax laws change annually, so the payroll app will never stop being updated.


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falcor84today at 2:49 PM

I don't accept that argument. As I see it, laws should be structured as data rather than code, using a clean non-Turing-Complete DSL for any embedded logic and calculations. Maybe there would still be occasional situations when new software features are needed, but it should be a rare occurrence rather than on every new change.

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