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Date: 2005-08-24 08:11 am (UTC)You start off with something small and simple, but then you fiddle with it, tweak the design and add new features. This naturally results in bugs, among other things.
After a while of this, the QA department looks at all the different workstreams' approach to answering the same basic problem and selects a few 'best practice' methodologies sometime towards the end of the Cambrian, so you end up with a limited number of phyla. To an outside observer, there's no earthly reason why some designs are selected as being better than others.
These basic bodyplans are distributed out to the developers, who fiddle with them some more, adding all sorts of weird and wonderful variations and the project expands to use every available resource. Some legacy systems (bacteria) become symbiotic and depend on new hosts to survive.
Meanwhile, one new architecture is developed which appears to address many of the problems and this team sucks up lots of resources and develops Dinosaurs(tm). These prove fairly successful, until the great KT system crash (alternatively slow hardware degradation has been posited). Meanwhile legacy systems such as arthropods, worms, bacteria etc churn around in the background, doing most of the useful work, but because they're Not Cool, nobody cares about them.
Due to the back-up and recovery of Earth not having been tested successfully (despite previous system crashes) only a small proportion of the genetic code survives the reformatting. There's then a period of RAD programming, which results in another attempt to create a stable system with a different architecture. Dinosaurs(tm) become to most a piece of history that most people fail to understand how such cumbersome things were ever thought to be the cutting edge of technology (although a vocal minority persist in maintaining that they were in fact fast and effective in comparison to modrern systems).
Naturally Mammals(tm) become the cool technology that everyone wants to know about and gets most of the news. This is despite the fact that most of the work is still actually being done by legacy systems. Even Dinosaur(tm) architecture can be found, rebranded as Birds.
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Date: 2005-08-24 06:28 pm (UTC)Hee,
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