Human DNA Source Code

[stumpere]

For many years molecular biologists have been mystified by the fact that very little of an organism's DNA seems to serve any useful function. The reason why only 30% of human DNA performs any useful function is that the rest of it is comment. Once we decode a typical human genome, we see that the contents begin as follows:

/* HUMAN_DNA.H

*

* Human Genome

* Version 2.1

*

* (C) God

*/



/* Revision history:

*

* 0000-00-01 00:00 1.0 Adam.

* 0000-00-02 10:00 1.1 Eve.

* 0000-00-03 02:11 1.2 Added male version. A bit messy --

* will require a rewrite later on

* 0017-03-12 03:14 1.3 Added extra sex drive to male.h;

* took code from elephant-dna.c

* 0145-10-03 16:33 1.4 Removed tail.

* 1115-00-31 17:20 1.5 Shortened forearms, expanded brain case.

* 2091-08-20 13:56 1.6 Opposable thumbs added to hand() routine.

* 2501-04-09 14:04 1.7 Minor cosmetic improvements -- skin color

* darker to match my own image.

* 2909-07-12 02:21 1.8 Dentition inadequate; added

* extra 'wisdom' teeth.

* Must remember to make mouth bigger

* to compensate.

* 4501-12-31 14:18 1.9 Increase average height.

* 6004-11-04 16:11 2.0 Made forefinger narrower to fit hole

* in center of CD.

*/



/* Standard definitions */



#define SEX male

#define HEIGHT 1.84

#define MASS 68



/* Include inherited traits from parent DNA files.

*

* Files must be pre-processed with MENDEL program to provide proper

* inheritance features.

*/



#include "mother.h"

#include "father.h"



#ifndef FATHER

#warn("Father unknown -- guessing\n")

#include "love_child.h"

#endif



/* Initialization bootstrap routine -- called before DNA duplication.

* Allocates buffers and sets up protein file pointers

*/

DNA *zygote_initialize(Sperm *, Ovum *);



/* MAIN INITIALIZATION CODE

*

* Returns structures containing pre-processed phenotypes for

* the organism to display at birth.

*

* Will be improved later to make output less ugly.

*/

Characteristic *lookup_phenotype(Identifier *i);





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...and so on...



[ Note that God programs in C, uses three-space tabs and /* */ style
comments ]

 

[Toxick]

Note that God programs in C, uses three-space tabs and /* */ style comments ]

Of course.


Unfortunately he doublespaces - which can tend to affect readability.

Luckily God also invented perl:

my $line;
while($line=<STDIN>)
{
   chomp($line);
   $line =~ s|\n\n|\n|gi;
}