From: Spike (spike66@comcast.net)
Date: Thu Jul 10 2003 - 23:26:04 MDT
From: Damien Broderick ...irrascible immunologist, Malcolm Simons, now
dying of cancer who decided years ago that `junk DNA' (introns) couldn't
possibly be junk, because it'd have been darwinnowed out...Damien
Broderick
This irrascible immunologist clearly was
never a programmer. Had he been a software
developer, it would be clear to him how it
happens that pieces of dead code can remain
in the final product, even after many versions
of the software. There would need to be some
evolutionary pressure to reduce or darwinnow
the dead code, which there evidently isn't.
But how does one achieve the title irrascible?
Must one have a rascer or rascist attempt to
rasc one and find it difficult or impossible?
spike
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