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Re:The Game of Distributed Systems Programming by toolslive on Wednesday June 27, 2012 @05:49AM (#4166251)
not all evolution converges, and even if it would converge, you might want to influence where it's going, no?
Re:The Game of Distributed Systems Programming by nnq on Wednesday June 27, 2012 @09:37AM (#4166812)
yes. but imagine how dog breeders influence where a certain dog race's evolution is going... I imagine a day when some of the computer systems will be engineered this way, with a good mathematical framework for evolution and all... and I think we're closer to this than it may seem, just look how programming languages "evolved" and were "selected" in the last half a century... everything was very empirical, otherwise we'd all be coding in a Lisp for experimental programming and an ML family language for the rest maybe...

...anyway, it's going very off topic so better leave it and let's get back to ..."work" :|