Hi to all mutants, I'm Carlo Comis, the italian mutant. I'm 29 and I'm= a student of the 2nd year in Information Technology at the university of= Udine, Italy. I always liked computer programming, though more focused= on ideas than on technicalities- in other words, I program mainly in Vis= ual Basic and have little skills in c/c++ and Java, although I'm finally = studying those languages in my university courses. Recently, I have deve= loped a (somehow) appreciated artificial life simulator/game, called Darw= inBots, in which hundreds of organisms, moved by a dna/program written in= a Turing-complete language, compete for survival and reproduction, mutat= ing and evolving during time. And sometimes involving. You can find it a= t the address: http://digilander.libero.it/darwinbots So at the time I'= m particularly interested in ideas to fully understand and measure the re= sults of my own simulator, and improve it (main problems with it are now = sexual reproduction and love, creation of niches, speciation, methabolism= ). As some others of you, I'm particularly scared by the need to speak= and understand english; though I can make it with written english, my co= nversation won't be so fluent. But probably a couple of beers will help.=0D = See you soon, Carlo --------------------------------------------------------------------------- list archives : //www.freelists.org/archives/rule110 change options : http://www.rule110.org/contact.html or sign off by mailing to list-request@xxxxxxxxxxx - subject: 'unsubscribe'