legalese
Dense, pedantic verbiage in a language description, product specification, or interface standard; text that seems designed to obfuscate and requires a language lawyer to parse it. Though hackers are not afraid of high information density and complexity in language (indeed, they rather enjoy both), they share a deep and abiding loathing for legalese; they associate it with deception, suits, and situations in which hackers generally get the short end of the stick.Nearby terms:
legacy software ♦ legacy system ♦ legal ♦ legalese ♦ LEGOL ♦ Le-Lisp ♦ lemma
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