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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think the advantage of thinking of DNA as some kind of program code is that we can draw inspiration about what can/can't be done from IT. And the other way around, nature's DNA code might give inspiration to computer language development.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

But thinking of DNA as code is pretty different than thinking of it as a language, isn't it? That's why I brought up the example of binary code in the first place. And sure, I completely agree that DNA is very much like binary code (just more complex). But code written in a human readable form is again different to that because we need language to understand machine readable code. There needs to be some kind of translation for us. Because language is a form of abstraction that is not present in neither code nor DNA.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Well, there is people that write assembly language code directly.