Quotes of the week [LWN.net]

Quotes of the week

Posted Jan 28, 2011 15:02 UTC (Fri) by Darkstar (guest, #28767)
In reply to: Quotes of the week by rgmoore
Parent article: Quotes of the week

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 :)
>Not to mention that they are slow, inefficient and ambiguous.
>But wht did you expect? The original authors of the code are long gone and maintenance is done by newcomers who are patching the code bit by bit. What you get from such a development model is pretty predictable: ~1 billion years old spaghetti DNA that no-one truly understands.

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

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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