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		vinceguidry on Aug 25, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: On the foolishness of “natural language programmin... > The history of English common law is far more akin to natural evolution than any intelligent design. So are many of the software projects I've been called on to maintain.

kyllo on Aug 25, 2014 [–]

That's actually an arguably better way to think about code.

    "The computer is a machine, but a codebase is an organism."

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