2010
Volume 10, Number 1, p.p. 39–43
Biological programming
Gergely Bándi† and Jeremy J. Ramsden‡
Cranfield University, Bedfordshire, MK43 0AL, England
Biology offers a tremendous set of concepts that are potentially very powerfully usable for the software engineer, but they have been barely exploited hitherto. In this position paper we propose a fresh attempt to create the building blocks of a programming technology that could be as successful as life. A key guiding principle is to develop and make use of unambiguous definitions of the essential features of life.