You know, this is a beautiful question, because this is what ended my academic career. My final class, and exam, was "Scientific Computation", which covered fractals, wavelets, artificial life, genetic algorithms, and a number of modern problems. The final project was to select a problem from the book for the class, so it was pretty open ended. I decided to build an artificial life simulation. I had to build the final project in Maple, and I wrote a graphical UI with little "creatures" with an array of "DNA" that represented movement patterns, which evolved over time in a grid of randomly placed food. The professor was amazed at the resourcefulness regarding the programming language. The moral? The programming language doesn't matter, if you really are interested.

In reply to Re: Simulated Evolution by Anonymous Monk
in thread Simulated Evolution by narse

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