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I'd say that X is the foremost example of actual software evolution. In the sense that (in the words of my pathologist father when I asked him how hard drug di

by ethbro 9y ago

I'd say that X is the foremost example of actual software evolution. In the sense that (in the words of my pathologist father when I asked him how hard drug discovery and design was), "Nature is lazy before it's intelligent. At every turn, it would rather reuse a system designed for a completely different purpose than design something new from the ground up. Which is how we end up with single pathways affecting six completely unrelated systems in the body."

krylon 9y ago
> Nature is lazy before it's intelligent. At every turn, it would rather reuse a system designed for a completely different purpose than design something new from the ground up. So we can blame all the crazy things we do with computers and software on nature? ;-) But seriously, that is a great insight. Both where evolution is concerned, and software development. (And other branches of engineering, too, I bet.)