Pall Thayer wrote:
For
now here's the updated source code with the communications socket that
outputs the programs code when something is sent.
Oh cool.
The Affero GPL requires just this behaviour as part of programs covered
by it, so it might be conceptually interesting to licence this
clemos wrote:
Hi Pall
It would be logical to me that your program respond its own source code.
It can be seen as a way to express itself, and probably be
misunderstood, but also to survive by duplicating itself.
That's a good point. I like it and I've now incorporated it but haven't
The program could be made self-modifying so it changes from generation
to generation (I think I mentioned this before but I do like the idea
;-) ):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymorphic_code
It could have a simple emotional system, like the one from The Sims
(this code is public so I don't
Hi Pall
I'm glad I helped. I really love your project, because such things
have been very often in my thoughts and a few times in my text editor.
I've been thinking about similar experiments very much, but (as often
with me) these reflexions have quickly turned into too complex things,
so that
Hi Pall
It would be logical to me that your program respond its own source code.
It can be seen as a way to express itself, and probably be
misunderstood, but also to survive by duplicating itself.
Actually, I still don't really get why it just recreates itself in
the end as a way to survive,
(ps. I'm now posting these to both Rhizome and Netbehaviour. My
apologies to anyone who receives them twice.)
The latest revision to exist.pl has opened a whole new can of beans.
Since it is now capable of receiving communication from other
processes it will inevitably have to respond and that's
