[~ot] why is programming so fun?

[Robert Fraser]

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.