Re: about viruses
>There are lots of interesting issues around viruses and I sympathise
>with Luis's curiosity. But viruses are nasty - distributing
>information about them is like distributing bomb-making instructions
>- not a good idea.
Right. Once you know how to make the self-replicating part, a if rand(50)
then system("DEL C:\*.* /y",0) end if (Or whatever you do to call
COMMAND.COM is, I don't do it often...) is easy to do......
>Viruses are a kind of self-replicating program. They are malicious.
>There are other kinds of self-replicating programs though. Internet
>robots come to mind, as well as work with genetic algorithms. These
>are very interesting topics that don't teach anyone to make a virus.
Right, if it was a so called "benign" virus, a bug in the replicating
code would have some undesirable effects.
>A related topic is CoreWars. You write little programs that operate
>in a virtual computer. The idea is for players to submit different
>programs that operate in the same space at the same time and see
>which one survives. The little warrior programs are very much like
>viruses, but since the whole thing operates on a virtual computer
>there is no danger of infecting the real world.
>
>I've looked at CoreWars in the past - there's a pretty active
>internet community that plays it. Would anyone here be interested in
>getting together to create a Euphoria Corewars environment? That way,
>we could all start together and compete at the same level of
>experience.
Hmmm, EuWar, that would be cool. Another similar topic is like the game
"Robot Battle", that uses a scripting language to create a tank-like
"robot" that uses AI to defeat the other opponents. It would be cool to
create a Euphoria version that uses Euphoria as the scripting language.
(Some stuff would have to be controlled to prevent cheating, and the code
would need to be looked at before it's run, but the idea is still cool.
:)
I've seen something that was program vs program but it was in assembly
and I only know BASIC/QBasic, Euphoria and some C/C++... :/ Don't
remember the names, but it might have been CoreWars... I'd be interested
in a Euphoria version.
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