[Southack]

"and when all the possible permutations are used up, DNA may no longer replicate. Will have reached our final generation. I suppose that DNA is as finite as anything else."

That's equally as nonsensical as saying that when all possible permutations of COBOL are used up, that programs will no longer replicate.

[Consort]

What's a permutation of COBOL and when did it, or any other language, ever replicate?