Just like in our DNA...

[Fredrik Lundh]

Charles G Waldman <cgw at fnal.gov> wrote:
> Of course, that's (supposed to be) the difference between Evolution
> and Engineering; in Natural Selection, only runtime behavior matters,
> but in our field, there's (supposed to be) an omniscient designer
> critically examining the code.

optimist! ;-)

and in the software universe, runtime behaviour
doesn't matter that much -- you can always fix the
bugs in the next release:

http://www.shift.com/shiftstd/SiteMap/frames/mag7.6.asp?searchfor=7.6bombsquad

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