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Re:Ask HN: Evolution writes very poor code. So why is biol... by amichail on Saturday May 30, 2009 @02:59PM (#633993)
What evidence do you have that the code that survives and propagates is elegant (i.e., at the DNA sequence level)?

In genetic programming, the products of evolution on a computer are completely incomprehensible.

What makes natural evolution any different?

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Re:Ask HN: Evolution writes very poor code. So why is biol... by markerdmann on Saturday May 30, 2009 @11:01PM (#634366)
If someone who is not a programmer looks at your code and pronounces it utterly incomprehensible, does that make it inelegant?

What exactly would "evidence" of something as subjective as "elegance" look like?

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