RAZD writes:
Question: is it the base program or subroutines that are evolved?
God, it's been years since I researched this. Take a look at my opening post in the thread
Percy's Alife Project and then at
Message 53. This thread reflects ideas I picked up from studying other genetic simulation programs. I think my plan was to invent a programming language that would control how objects behaved in an environment. An object's programming would evolve randomly by inserting, deleting or modifying a line of programming. An object could become food either by dying or by being "attacked" by another object. Its energy requirements and its value as food would be a function of its size (number of lines of code).
When I posted at the end of the thread that I was entering a busy period, it was just because it was the Thanksgiving to Christmas period. I fully expected to return to the effort in the new year, but my mother became ill just before the new year and I became her care giver for a few months into May. I never did return to this, but looking at this ancient thread now it looks it would be a lot of fun.
--Percy