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Species8472
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Message 40 of 134 (548745)
03-01-2010 2:44 PM


I have a question for you guys. I'm an engineering student doubling with computer science. With programing, I have a bad habit of commenting out whole sections of codes, sometimes even whole subroutines, instead of deleting them when I don't use them. I also have the bad habit of reusing programs time after time after adjusting them just a little to do their purpose. The result after a while are programs with hundreds of lines of codes that's been commented out. Sometimes, I even leave things running if they absolutely not affect the result I wanted.
Am I to understand that "neutral" mutations are somewhat like these junk codes?

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