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I'm new here and I'm wondering what software poeple have used in researching alife. What have your experiences being like?
I'm a programmer, not particularly attached to any specific language and I'm wondering if anyone has a strong preference for particular languages in programming alife applications.
I'd love to hear what others experience have in this field.
I'm interested in exploring what software is already available so any good links you could suggest would be most appreciated.
I'm a programmer, not particularly attached to any specific language and I'm wondering if anyone has a strong preference for particular languages in programming alife applications.
I'd love to hear what others experience have in this field.
I'm interested in exploring what software is already available so any good links you could suggest would be most appreciated.
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Re: A-Life newbie questions
Sun, April 18, 2004 - 7:34 PMI'm just getting started in A-Life as well. I've not made any measurable strides just yet, but I've picked up the LISP programming language to help me along. Seems to be (the|a) language of choice for for the AI/A-Life set. -
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Re: A-Life newbie questions
Mon, April 19, 2004 - 2:22 PMAny particular flavour of Lisp that you have there? I downloaded Corman Lisp to have a look at it last year, seemed like a nice implementation of the language but to be honest I didn't get much time to explore it. I played a little with POP-11 many years ago and thought it would be nice to blow the dust of those old AI memories.
I'm currently reading "Darwin AMoung the Machines" by George Dyson at the moment and it got my interest in A-Life fired up again. -
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Re: A-Life newbie questions
Mon, April 19, 2004 - 8:41 PMI hopped around a little bit at first, but I've settled in on CMUCL. I've no background in the subject, so I can't say that it's better or worse than any other implementation. I'm doing okay so far, but I have to admit that it can be a little strange making sure my functions evaluate to the desired result, rather than to simply return :-)
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