[FWP] Re: DNA.pm

[Wendy Seltzer <wendy@seltzer.com> (by way of owner-fwp@technofile.org)]

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At 06:17 PM 04/01/2001 +0100, schwern@pobox.com wrote:
>Not to be outdone by the Brits (see Leon's Buffy.pm
>http://www.astray.com/Buffy/), American innovation brings us DNA.pm!
>
>http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/src/ if it hasn't made it to CPAN yet.
>
>
>NAME
>     DNA - Encodes your Perl program into an Amino Acid sequence

So, does this give us something like Borges' library of Babel?  With the
enormous amount of genetic material out there, every program you could
imagine is already written somewhere in Perl-DNA, you just have to know
where to look.

--Wendy
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Wendy Seltzer -- wendy@seltzer.com
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