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Thank you so very much for sharing your insights!

Jealous management of things that happen over and over was very important when 50,000 bytes of Ram memory was a lot, much less than that was usually the rule..

Indeed. Subroutines are quite efficient - and I suspect we'd see a lot of subroutines in DNA encoding much earlier than we mortals discovered their efficiency in software programming.

I appreciated then, and do now that God does not make Bluebirds.. he made Bluebirds that make Bluebirds... The logic of that is incredibly creative and efficient.. The sub-routine of life.. There is a talent to recognizing redundancy.. and another different talent to dealing with it as "an asset".. not "a liability"..

Indeed - duplication of the organism. And even within a cell, the DNA strands are duplicated as if for a backup copy. Likewise both database and program required efficient backup systems - and the most vital control systems running in real time required duplicate systems so if one failed, the other could pick it up without breaking stride. Someone once told me that onboard airplane data processing was backed up 5 levels deep due to the risk.

And many think they were "innovators" to come up which such things in the 1960's. LOLOL!

[ And even within a cell, the DNA strands are duplicated as if for a backup copy. ]

Hmmmm... now theres a take on mitosis I have never considered...

Studying data compression is a mental trip to take..
I studied data compression for a number of years..

The ways to actually compress data (meaning putting 3 pounds of data into a 2 pound bag or smaller..) should be mandatory study for DNA researchers.. Because that is exactely what DNA is.. IS God compressing information.. DNA is data compression.. not like data compression but exactely data/information compression..

Maybe computer data compressor engineers should study DNA as well..
Could be they'd learn something.. Ya think!...