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

[Yeechang Lee <ylee@columbia.edu>]

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.