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I disagree. Nature does practice OOP and taxonomic hierarchies are real things in nature if they are based on their evolutionary history. People say penguins ar
by jhbadger 4y ago
I disagree. Nature does practice OOP and taxonomic hierarchies are real things in nature if they are based on their evolutionary history. People say penguins are "flightless birds", but look how they swim. They don't swim like fishes. They basically are flying in water because they share the same genetic programming as other birds, just slightly modified to use a different medium. Nature doesn't re-implement things from scratch but is great at code reuse.
- igouy 4y agoNature doesn't do design, period.
- jhbadger 4y agoTrue but irrelevant. The fact is nature "subclasses" (in the OOP sense) animals all the time in evolution even if it is an unintelligent process ultimately due to chance modification.
- Jcowell 4y agoI think I understand what your saying. In this context a penguin is implementing a quality it’s inherited from the gene it has as a bird. A Penguin may not be a bird in the same way we may thing a fly method should work , but it’s fly method derived from the fact that it’s genetically a bird.
- igouy 4y ago> The fact is… Perhaps you mean — The analogy is…