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Old 12-22-2006, 12:19 PM   #56
MaggieL
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Originally Posted by Griff
How about an operating system / application analogy? As you were...
Computing operating systems and applications are designed with a single, (mostly) clean separation at the API level, so that the application and the OS can evolve independantly because of tight encapsulation.

Biological systems and subsystems don't break down that way. Having evolved together, they're more holistically interdependant.
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