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.





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LeFun
legacy code
legacy software
legacy system
legal
 DWIM
language lawyer
legal
legalese
quote chapter and verse
 LEGOL
Le-Lisp
lemma
Lempel-Ziv compression
Lempel-Ziv Welch compression