[~ot] why is programming so fun?

[BCS]

Reply to Fawzi,

> Chris Wright Wrote:
> 
>> BCS wrote:
>> 
>>> The chances of life happening by chance are something like that, if
>>> not worse. You could probably calculated a relative number for it
>>> with quantum physics and/or information theory and/or string theory
>>> or some such. IIRC there is a theory about how much info can be in a
>>> given volume.
>>> 
>> I don't think anyone has come close to describing the odds of
>> abiogenesis.
>> 
> definitely OT, but
> J. Maynard Smith, Eörs Szathmáry: The Major Transitions in Evolution.
> New York 1995, Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-850294-X
> contains several interesting thoughts about it :)

Link by any chance?