[Tiksi]

And so begins software evolution by random mutation.

[jagger27]

If you've ever seen first year compsci students try to bang out a Python assignment, this is already the case.

[Tiksi]

That's more of the primordial soup pre-evolution. Something might make it, but the chances are slim and nothing's really evolving, just kinda there.

Randomly changing the file is mutating an existing codebase with predecessors that made it out of the primordial soup.

I may have stretched the analogy too far now.