The relation between DNA and programming is extraordinarily messy and complex as far as I know, and I am far from knowing lots.<p>Certainly, ordinary programming as it exists now can't be applied with ordinary tech to cells.<p>But if cell do all sort of computer-like-tasks, if they can be recursive or whatnot, what is a <i>richer</i> paradigm than programming that expresses their qualities. From the video, simply hear vagueness like "evolution" and "curing" and etc.<p>It like cells and biological objects are on the other side of what Paul Allen calls the "complexity brake" but I don't see how that implies they're not like computers, just that they are computers that we will have to develop a variety of distinct tools to program.