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The idea that nature may have evolved coding design patterns to make "cleaner more efficient" code is amazing. Are flowering plants just written in a language
by damon_c 12y ago
The idea that nature may have evolved coding design patterns to make "cleaner more efficient" code is amazing.
Are flowering plants just written in a language that doesn't have "for loops" so everything is just written out line by line?
- acqq 12y agoNo. The compactness of the DNA "program" is an evolutionary trade off, just like in the engineering. For some species to have a significantly more compact code now there should have existed some evolutionary benefit among the ancestors for that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genome_size#Genome_reduction_in_obligate_endosymbiotic_species http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genome_size#Genome_reduction_in...
- damon_c 12y agoInteresting, and from the same page, Drake's rule says that similarly to programming, the larger the "codebase", the slower the mutation (new feature launch) rate. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genome_size#Drake.27s_rule http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genome_size#Drake.27s_rule