From: kym@ukato.freeshell.org   
      
   In comp.compilers dcorbit@connx.com wrote:   
   ...   
   > You can't turn the DNA of a dead cow back into a cow.  That sort of   
   > thing only works on "Jurasic Park" movies.   
      
   Yup.   
      
   You have to also have one complete cow cell to show you how the DNA   
   is interpreted.   
      
   I think this goes down with informal theorems "you can't learn a dead   
   language (only) from their stone tablets" and "you can't learn to   
   speak from a book".  A certain amount of peripheral info is somtimes   
   kept outside the systems in question -- "in the ether", so to speak.   
      
   Ahhh. Quantum info and the formals of distributed computing... all very   
   interesting.   
   [Can we talk about compilers now? -John]   
      
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