Copy/paste is robust? As a biomedical engineer who primarily writes software, it’s fun to consider analogies with evolution. Copy/pasting and tweaking boilerp

Copy/paste is robust? As a biomedical engineer who primarily writes software, it’s fun to consider analogies with evolution. Copy/pasting and tweaking boilerplate is like protein-coding DNA that was copied and mutated in our evolutionary history. Dealing with messy edge cases at a higher level is like alternative splicing of mRNA.