Re: Coding style - a non-issue

[Daniel Phillips]

On December 2, 2001 08:04 pm, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Dec 2001 19:41:26 +0100
> Daniel Phillips <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> > One fact that is often missed by armchair evolutionists is that evolution is 
> > not random.  It's controlled by a mechanism (most obviously: gene shuffling) 
> > and the mechanism *itself* evolves.  That is why evolution speeds up over 
> > time.  There's a random element, yes, but it's not the principal element.
> 
> You mean "controlled" up to the point where your small environment got randomly
> hit by a smaller sized stone coming right from the nowhere corner of the
> universe, or not?

See "principal" above.  There's a random element in the game of bridge, too,
but it's not the principal element.

--
Daniel