Re: the genome as a software system


Tim McDaniel wrote:
> In article <efydndcpxte584beRVn-gw@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
> Johan Larson <johan0larson8comcast0net> wrote:
> >
> >"Louann Miller" <louann_m@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> >news:1125837412.52b7f4d9f0932e8ff2d1ac46090bca07@xxxxxxxxxxx
> >> On Sat, 03 Sep 2005 03:23:48 GMT, Carl Dershem <dershem@xxxxxxx>
> >> wrote:
> >>>It has some potential, but until they know what the gene segments
> >>>*do*, it's only potential. We may have mapped a gene, but we still
> >>>haven't decoded or labeled the whole thing, so it's just a
> >>>beginning.
> >>
> >> Printing out the source code is a good and necessary first step,
> >> but it turns out that the programming team didn't comment
> >> _anything._
> >
> >Imagine a codebase billions of years old, neveer taken off line,
> >never maintained by professionals, and hacked on by every damn luser
> >who came along and felt like a bit of whopee.
>
> WikiLife.

Well, it's more "What I Am Is". Or is that too Lamarckian?

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