You're confusing literal translation with development. Here's a very loose conceptual analogy:
Translation: translating Lord of the Rings into Chinese.
Development: hearing a short plot synopsis of Lord of the Rings and writing your own fantasy novel based on the same theme.
Development really does do something analogous to that. It takes a collection of proteins and rules and, through embodiment within the laws of physics, constructs the phenotype. The phenotype contains vastly more information than the genotype, and two identical genotypes will not produce absolutely identical phenotypes.
There is something fundamental about development that we do not understand. This is widely acknowledged in the developmental biology, evo-devo, and evolutionary computation fields. A closer analogy than the loose one above might be some of the behaviors we see with fractals and cellular automata, though development is less deterministic than that.
Evolution and development are somehow related. We don't quite get that either. But both processes add vast amounts of information and both involve adaptation.
Hand waving: the adult brain is the output of running a program stored in DNA for twenty years on a runtime (the physical universe) we can barley understand. To produce a brain from the data stored in DNA, we would need to simulate the runtime environment. To do that without simulating the whole universe, we would need to work out which subset of the universe to simulate. We are far away from knowing what shape that subset takes, let alone what the minimal number of bytes required to simulate it is.
Your Java program doesn't directly execute on the CPU, compilation and interpretation are required.