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Quotes of the weekQuotes of the weekPosted Jan 21, 2011 2:36 UTC (Fri) by rgmoore (✭ supporter ✭, #75)Parent article: Quotes of the week
maintenance is done by newcomers who are patching the code bit by bit.Not true. A lot of the maintenance is being done by copy and paste, including the tendency to copy whole chunks and then have the two copies slowly diverge.
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Quotes of the week Posted Jan 21, 2011 12:28 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
And then you get people who think it's fun to insert half a byte in the middle of the code and shift the rest up by a half-byte.
Quotes of the week Posted Jan 28, 2011 15:02 UTC (Fri) by Darkstar (guest, #28767) [Link]
I think the quote lacks the required context. He was talking about human DNA, not about programming:
>> Human communication methods are all buggy as hell :)
It's actually only funny if you see it in that context: "bit-by-bit" changes to the DNA (=mutations) etc..
But it's nice to see how similar human evolution and programming really are
-Darkstar
Quotes of the week Posted Jan 29, 2011 19:17 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
i.e., not at all similar? The genome is not a computer program. It's nothing like a computer program.
Quotes of the week Posted Feb 3, 2011 10:27 UTC (Thu) by Darkstar (guest, #28767) [Link]
Wrong. The RNA is a "blueprint" that is processed by a ribosome. This is similar to what a turing machine does.
Ribosomes take input (the RNA), process it, and produce output (the proteins).
I didn't say it is the same as a computer program. But it is definitely similar.
-Darkstar
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