[~ot] why is programming so fun?

[BCS]

Reply to Robert,

> Gregor Richards wrote:
> 
>> Now, write a program to modify code randomly and select based on a
>> fitness function, and feed it with 100 of this program you just
>> wrote, and you've got a genetic algorithm! Give it a few generations,
>> and it'll do something useful.
>> 
> If you replace "fitness function" with "the marketplace," this is an
> excellent summary of Microsoft's development process.
> 

<G> I have though much the same thing.