The long and the short of it is that software can't evolve because too much of its genome space is lethal, and the non-lethal parts are non-contiguous, so the quasispecies decoheres -- if it survives at all -- instead of climbing to the top of the fitness landscape.
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The long and the short of it is that software can't evolve because too much of its genome space is lethal, and the non-lethal parts are non-contiguous, so the quasispecies decoheres -- if it survives at all -- instead of climbing to the top of the fitness landscape.