&gt;&gt; So, in essence, saying that contracts can be automated is literally the exact same statement that software development can be automated.<p>Yes and no. Software is written in programming languages that have a much
stricter interpretation than legal language. In fact, programming languages&#x27;
interpretation is _automated_ (as in compilers and interpreters). Also, programs
execute in much better circumscribed environments than legal scripts.<p>&gt;&gt; Show me how. I will make you wealthy beyond the wildest dreams of avarice.<p>Are we talking about automating programming? Because there&#x27;s quite a bit of
literature on automatic programming, particularly from the eighties and nineties
I believe- and you could argue that basically all of machine learning is just
automating the hand-crafting of complex, rule-based software systems.<p>... which, as you&#x27;re arguing yourself, is not that far from legal documents, eh?