Surely mappings onto programming concepts can provide a different kind of understanding to programmers than biology textbooks. I'm kind of appalled by the anti-

Surely mappings onto programming concepts can provide a different kind of understanding to programmers than biology textbooks. I'm kind of appalled by the anti-cross-disciplinary attitude displayed on HN sometimes. (Like the recent 'This guy's a physicist. He should shut up about a.i.' in regards to David Deutsch.)