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DNA is more like configuration for your molecural factories.
by thrw42A8N 2y ago
DNA is more like configuration for your molecural factories.
- exe34 2y agoconfiguration is code.
- 0x457 2y agospeakig like a true "exe"
- thrw42A8N 2y agoNot in this case. There is only a very restricted set of options and these can be interpreted in different ways by different machines that read it.
- hinkley 2y agoAnd merge conflicts are a bitch when you don’t have unit tests.
- thrw42A8N 2y agoIt's code, but not a program - there is no algorithm. Something resembling an algorithm is on the reader side.
- exe34 2y agoby that logic, programs have no algorithms either, they have to be executed by the hardware.
- thrw42A8N 2y agoThere is a difference between a series of instructions that maps to machine code nearly directly, and a data format like an image, or factory templates. The point about algorithms stands - it's not that programs don't contain any because a machine interprets them. I'm referring to the simple fact that program code can be expressed as a flow diagram - but try doing that with a CAD file. You can't, it's declarative in nature, not a series of steps and decisions.
- exe34 2y agoYou're trying to say that data isn't code? you haven't tried lisp, have you?