Linus vertaa ohjelmointia evoon

Mr.K.A.T. kirjoitti:

Linus Torvalds vertaa avointa sorsakoodien
kehitystä evoluutioon ja korostaa luonnonvalinnan
voimaa. Ja kyllä hän on tammikuun 2001 Valituissa
Paloissakin tunnustanut uskoa darwinismiin ;)
(Ilmeisesti pitää ihan tosissaan juuri
darwinistista "kaaoottista" Linuxin kehitystä sen
voimana eli etuna suljetumpiin "suunniteltuihin"
systeemeihin.)

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-Mon, 03 Dec 2001 13:53:30
-Sherilyn ([email protected])
-Newsgroups: talk.origins

This is an excerpt from a recent discussion of
code design on the linux-kernel
mailing list. I thought some t.o people might be
interested in the parallel
Linus Torvalds attempts to draw between open
source software development and
biological evolution. This isn't exactly a new
idea, but it did lead to an
interesting discussion. You can read more of the
discussion here:

http://kerneltrap.org/article.php?sid=398

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From: Linus Torvalds
Subject: Re: Coding style - a non-issue
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 16:50:34 -0800 (PST) On
Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Rik van Riel
wrote:
>
> I'm very interested too, though I'll have to
agree with Larry
> that Linux really isn't going anywhere in
particular and seems
> to be making progress through sheer luck

Hey, that's not a bug, that's a FEATURE!

You know what the most complex piece of
engineering known to man in the whole
solar system is?

Guess what - it's not Linux, it's not Solaris, and
it's not your car.

It's you. And me.

And think about how you and me actually came about
- not through any
complex design.

Right. "sheer luck".

Well, sheer luck, AND:

- free availability and _crosspollination_
through sharing of "source
code", although biologists call it DNA.

- a rather unforgiving user environment, that
happily replaces bad
versions of us with better working versions and
thus culls the herd
(biologists often call this "survival of the
fittest")

- massive undirected parallel development ("trial
and error")

I'm deadly serious: we humans have _never_ been
able to replicate
something more complicated than what we ourselves
are, yet natural
selection did it without even thinking.

Don't underestimate the power of survival of the
fittest.

And don't EVER make the mistake that you can
design something better than
what you get from ruthless massively parallel
trial-and-error with a
feedback cycle. That's giving your intelligence
_much_ too much credit.
Quite frankly, Sun is doomed. And it has nothing
to do with their
engineering practices or their coding style.

Linus
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