So finally Rob and Clement. Here's a response.
Affero? Never heard of it and I don't really get what they're about
from their website. I'll think about it.
I just finished writing a lengthy response to Curt Cloninger on
Rhizome regarding the philosophical side of the exist.pl project. Curt
knows
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 ve
Hi Clement,
Just want to respond to show that I am paying attention. I've been
pretty busy with a number of things so I haven't had time to respond
to yours and Robs very interesting points. And now I'm going out of
town over the weekend. I will try to respond after the weekend. For
now here's the
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 mos
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 thi
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
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, be
(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 t
