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I have found some most important information. <br />Thanks<br />Mark<br /><a href="%E2%80%9Dwww.linkedin.com/pub/chad-wuertz/7/178/579%E2%80%9D" rel="nofollow">“Chad Wuertz Indianapolis”</a>“Chad Wuertz”http://chad-wuertz.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2135788133426971614.post-22802301562350717902011-06-30T10:07:57.050-07:002011-06-30T10:07:57.050-07:00Computer software is similar to the tax code in ma...Computer software is similar to the tax code in many respects: written by humans, easy to create, easy to break, driven by good intentions and by special interests, and tending to grow and become increasingly complex. Today, even a "simple" laser printer may contain more than a million lines of code (LOC). Large systems, such as airline reservation systems, database management systems, flight tracking systems, contain much more code. It is often impossible, unpractical, too expensive, or too risky to completely rewrite and replace large software systems. This usually results in what is called the "Lava Flow Pattern", where layer upon layer of software changes are added on top of the original software. Does this sound familiar to you tax practitioners?<br /><br />Often the people who maintain the code are unaware of, lose sight of, or disagree with the motivation and intent of the original authors, sometimes because of vague, incomplete, or missing documentation. This requires "software archaelogy" by new developers, but not everyone is willing to spend the time digging into the code.<br /><br />Often the design and behavior of the existing code is not fully understood, and the implementation <br />of a "simple change" results in surprising side-effects or breaks the code. Sometimes the broken software appears to be working correctly, but the defects enable surreptitious misuse, e.g. security breaches.<br /><br />Testing of software is difficult and not totally reliable. Review of software by expert practitioners is often the only way to find some types of defects, but this is difficult with primitive tools.<br /><br />Software is essentially textual in nature, with lots of interdependencies, much like the tax code. Improvements in computer languages have made software easier to develop, but often result in new types of defects while eliminating other classes of defects.<br /><br />An obvious common problem is that it is difficult to learn and understand both large bodies of software code and the tax code. Tools have been developed over decades in the software industry, starting with simple cross-reference tools to help identify interdependencies in the code. The software tools industry has grown, and today there are graphical tools which enable perusal of the code, and different views, from high-level structural views to views of details with highlighted information. In the past, people might spend months or years learning about one large piece of software, and become recognized as experts. Today, with state-of-the-art tools, it is possible for competent engineers to become experts much more quickly, and it makes the maintenance of the code much more efficient and less risky.<br /><br />In the past decade, these tools have helped enable the open source movement, which allows collaboration by strangers, and has produced lots of excellent new software.<br /><br />As someone who has spent 40 years working as a software engineer, it strikes me that the tools for understanding and analysis of the tax code are about where the software industry was 40 years ago. It troubles me that the tax code, which affects all of us directly or indirectly, is in this state.<br /><br />That is, until now. Ari Hershowitz and his colleagues at Tabulaw are developing tools similar to some software visualization tools; you can see some of them on www.tax26.com. But it's not just about tools; the representation of the tax code also needs to change from "just text" to a form that captures more information. Tabulaw's efforts to introduce structural metadata to California's laws, as well as the "open sourcing" of tax code, are remarkable steps in the right direction. I truly hope that these ideas are embraced by a wider audience and that your tools are adopted quickly; we would all benefit.<br /><br />Disclaimer: I'm self-employed, and I have no financial or other interest in Tabulaw, nor do I know any of its employees.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com