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[โ€“] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Evolutionary trees pretty much look like a git tree in a large company: always changing requirements, only patches, rarely less code. It somewhat works and nobody understands why.

I wanted to say that at least the programming language is always the same, but it's at least two.

In both cases it works because that's the only requirement. It doesn't need to be elegant or make sense or even last very long