Re:Natural Selection (Score 1)

The evolution of biological organisms, or evolution of computer code, share many similarities indeed. The key word here is "evolution" defined as "improvement through descent". Even as a business programmer your ability to contribute to projects is limited. What you should see is the broader picture. A world where a large number of programmers work on a large number of projects. If the quick fixes in your program didnt hold up in the long run, it is because: 1.the fix just wasnt good enough. 2.the requirements for the program changed. What you should do is ask yourself how many programmers do write software that is not rock solid, release it early, with bugs, and the product gets accepted, refined polished etc... Just because a quick fix isnt good for the long run doesnt mean it cannot be fixed again and again over the span of time. From a paleontological point of view, dinosaurs were EXTREMELY successful creatures, that perfectly adapted into a HUGE number of ecosystems and with a mindboggling number of species and subspecies. Their extinction is surely not the cause of a faulty evolution but the abrupt changes in all of earths ecosystem by the suspected meteorite impact. If this were to happen nowadays, our chances of survival would be slim at best. So your argument rests on very shoddy legs...