I need to create something that will simulate evolution... sort of. I was wondering if this was something I could use Perl for?

The general idea would be to have a population of different kinds of "creatures" with different, variable "genes." Each kind of creature would be both preditor and prey to different types, based on their genes. They would also have to reproduce with each other, and possibly have mutations occur in the genes. (At which point they would possibly become preditor/prey to a different creature.) Like in real-world evolution, the mutations couldn't be completely random, and hopefully would help the creatures to survive -- but other creatures will also be evolving.

Anyway, I'm sure this sort of thing will be rather difficult, but before I start learning Perl, I just wanted to know if something like this would be possible with Perl. And, if so, where a good starting point would be in trying to learn how to accomplish this.


Thanks.

In reply to Using Perl to simulate evolution. by Mychael

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