See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_ball_of_mud
There is a rich literature on design anti-patterns and the reasons they exist and survive.
Agree that biology looks like a classic legacy system, but worse:
3.5B years old
No documentation
No source code
http://www.laputan.org/mud/mud.html is a great writeup on big balls of mud.
I get the intended meaning, but I would like to made the words a little more precise. While we can find the executable source code (DNA) for an organism, that DNA is far from a high-level language.
Could be referring to the relatively recent discovery of DNA sequencing, with only the UI being easily accessible.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_ball_of_mud
There is a rich literature on design anti-patterns and the reasons they exist and survive.
Agree that biology looks like a classic legacy system, but worse:
http://www.laputan.org/mud/mud.html is a great writeup on big balls of mud.
I get the intended meaning, but I would like to made the words a little more precise. While we can find the executable source code (DNA) for an organism, that DNA is far from a high-level language.
Could be referring to the relatively recent discovery of DNA sequencing, with only the UI being easily accessible.