TITLE: Gene Expression
AUTHOR: Eugene Wallingford
DATE: March 14, 2024 12:37 PM
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BODY:
 Someone sent me this image, from a slide deck they ran across
 somewhere:

 <img
   src="http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog-images/humor/gene-expression.jpg"
   alt="A slide labeled 'Gene Expression'. The main image a casual shot of actor Gene Wilder, labeled 'One Gene'. There a three side images of Wilder as iconic characters he played in 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory', 'Young Frankenstein', and 'Blazing Saddles'. There are arrows from the main image to the three side images, labeled 'Many Outcomes'."
   width="500"
   style="border: 1px solid darkgray;"
 >

 I don't know what to do with it other than to say this:

 As a person named 'Eugene' and an admirer of Mr. Wilder's work,
 I smile every time I see it.  That's a clever way to reinforce
 the idea of gene expression by analogy, using actors and roles.

 When I teach OOP and FP, I'm always looking for simple analogies
 like this from the non-programming world to reinforce ideas that
 we are learning about in class.  My OOP repertoire is pretty
 deep.  As I teach functional programming each spring, I'm still
 looking for new FP analogies all the time.

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 <b>Note</b>:  I don't know the original source of this image.
 If you know who created the slide, please let me know via email,
 Mastodon, or Twitter (all linked in the sidebar).  I would love
 to credit the creator.
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