From: MonkeeSage <MonkeeSage@...>
Date: 2007-11-29T08:49:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Metaprogramming for Tierra-like (artificial life) program?

On Nov 28, 12:08 pm, Phil Rhoades <p...@pricom.com.au> wrote:
> 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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Sure, you can write a Game of Life in ruby. (You could even get fancy
and name it something else, like, say..."Tierra" ;P)

http://rubyforge.org/projects/rlife/

Regards,
Jordan