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Re:Where Did DNA Come From? by willis936 on Tuesday February 13, 2024 @07:11AM (#39356903)
Has anyone written a simulator in this style? You'd want to sandbox it so it doesn't get flagged as a virus, but it might be fun.
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Re:Where Did DNA Come From? by tetris11 on Tuesday February 13, 2024 @07:34AM (#39357023)
In a sense, the historic development of GCC[1] is similar to this, relying on the previous version of GCC to compile the newer, whilst making modifications to the parser to allow the new symbols to parse.

1: "Trusting Trust" by Ken Thompson https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-tho...

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Re:Where Did DNA Come From? by willis936 on Tuesday February 13, 2024 @07:38AM (#39357055)
Yes but always human in the loop. I mean a self replicating, source modifying program.
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