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Stallman on biological source code (a.k.a genetic code)

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Posted on: July 30, 2010 4:37 AM, by Selva

Natural organisms never had anything like source code. The genetic
code of an organism is more comparable to a binary (in fact,
quaternary) executable. Imagine a C compiler made by patching the
binary of hello.c a billion times in a genetic algorithm and you'll
see how hard this is to understand. -in an answer to a question (question 14).

That's a nifty insight that compares software and wetware!

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