From: Phil Rhoades <phil@...>
Date: 2007-11-29T03:08:47+09:00
Subject: Metaprogramming for Tierra-like (artificial life) program?

People,

Would it be possible to use Ruby's metaprogramming ability to write
something like Tierra?:

http://www.nis.atr.jp/~ray/tierra/whatis.html

http://www.nis.atr.jp/~ray/pubs/images/

A quick summary for those who don't want to look at this site - Tierra
is an artificial life program using a virtual computer and virtual
machine code to allow "evolution" of self-reproducing code by mutation
(bit-flipping).  Various "organisms" then evolve including hosts,
parasites, immune hosts, hyper-parasites etc

It would be a nice programming exercise for me (to learn more Ruby) if
something like Tierra was possible using metaprogramming (or any other
ruby facilities).

Regards,

Phil.
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