Sorry, reading over my comment, I sounded more antagonistic than I meant to be. After all, we're here to enjoy discussion and not to battle against each other.
As an aside, on another post yesterday, I had a pleasant surprise about "templating" in life itself.
> The familiar distinction between software and hardware loses its meaning in living cells. We propose new ways to study the phylogeny of metabolisms, new astronomical ways to search for life on exoplanets, new experiments to seek the emergence of the most rudimentary life, and the hint of a coherent testable pathway to prokaryotes with template replication and coding.
As an aside, on another post yesterday, I had a pleasant surprise about "templating" in life itself.
> The familiar distinction between software and hardware loses its meaning in living cells. We propose new ways to study the phylogeny of metabolisms, new astronomical ways to search for life on exoplanets, new experiments to seek the emergence of the most rudimentary life, and the hint of a coherent testable pathway to prokaryotes with template replication and coding.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.09514
Maybe DNA is the original templating language. (Hopefully with more sophistication than fancy string interpolation.)