Talk:Self-Replicating Automata

Various Issues
Could this be made more accessible to people who are intrested but who are not such low level coders.

What OS and version's do each variant work on, presumably each relise of a service pach 'fixes' most of thease.

Is there any self replicating code that mutates sightly at random on making a copy? is this possible?

Alan2here 16:46, 19 January 2007 (UTC)


 * This is possible. I'm not at home, but if I was I'd find the name of the experiment, but in short, years ago someone did an experiment with assembly in which every 'critter' started off with the same code that copied itself and also mutated itself randomly for the next iteration. Improper programs were killed outright, and the ones that perpetuated had interesting properties. The experiment was done in such a way that the shorter the program was, the quicker it would spawn, so that parasites developed that used code other than it's own. User:albinofrenchy