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The Evolution of Software

Posted by michael on from the growing-feathers dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Russian physicists Gorshenev and Pis'mak have posted a preprint claiming evidence that software projects naturally attain a state of self-organized criticality, in a process analogous to the contested theory of punctuated equilibrium in biological evolution (see also this paper by Bak and Boettcher). The software projects studied are FreeBSD, Mozilla, and GNU Emacs, by analyzing data from their CVS checkins."

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  1. Biologically massive software development by TuringTest · · Score: 2, Informative
    If you are interested in how software development can be addressed vith unusual points of view, you can read also this article:

    Mob Software: The Erotic Life of Code
    An Essay in First Person by
    Richard P. Gabriel & Ron Goldman

    It has been previously discussed in Slashdot.

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    Singularity: a belief in the "God" idea with the "demiurge" relation inverted.