Just like in our DNA...

[Charles G Waldman]

Michael Vanier writes:

 > With all due respect to Guido, who is usually the most low-key no-bullshit
 > person on the planet, the statement about DNA is a beautiful example of
 > marketing-speak.  I thought I was reading an interview with Steve Jobs for
 > a second :-)  Guido, did they slip something into your coffee? ;-)

Do you know anything about so-called "Junk DNA"?  To me, Guido's quote
seems like a perfectly apt analogy for what one of my former
co-workers liked to call "surgical code adhesions".  It's not like
he's dropping some pointless reference to some pie-in-the-sky
technology like DNA-based computing.  It's simply an analogy drawn
from outside the world of computer science, which shows that somehow,
in addition to writing and maintaining Python and other software, and
answering numerous silly and not-so-silly questions on this newsgroup,
he manages to stay well-informed about a wide variety of subjects.