A reply challenges Grady Booch’s line between “parallel” and convergent evolution
dyamins · x · 2026-07-23
@dyamins pushes back on Booch’s wording and asks why the resemblance should be called merely an “amusing parallel” rather than convergent evolution.
He argues that if two systems share a parallel structure, that is precisely what convergent evolution means.
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