Legislative code

This Ezra Klein post is interesting because it explains how bills are actually argued and voted upon in "plain English", and then translated into legalese:

The bill is written in plain English so the legislators can actually grasp its provisions, and CBO scores that version. After passage, the bill is rewritten in legalese, and lawyers go back to make sure there are no discrepancies between the "plain English" and the legislative language. If there are, the legal language is rewritten to reflect the English.

I imagine that there must be very strong parallels between legal language and computer code. I wonder if anyone has ever tried to essentially come up with an IDE for legalese--where the text editor and maybe even an equivalent to a compiler would have some idea of the meaning of the content that was being produced (leveraging syntactic rules to do so). I wonder if there's the concept of "commenting your code" when you write legal language. I wonder what the best practices and conventions are.

Hmm.