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- From: ksand@apple.com (Kent Sandvik )
- Subject: Re: Laying a trap
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- Message-ID: <ksand-211192230124@wintermute.apple.com>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 07:01:20 GMT
- References: <1992Nov18.133247.8546@city.cs>
- Organization: Apple
- Followup-To: talk.origins
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- In article <1992Nov18.133247.8546@city.cs>, lionel@cs.city.ac.uk (Lionel
- Tun) wrote:
- > 2
- > For those of you who are not game fans, but more business
- > oriented:
- > Consider a spreadsheet program such as Lotus123 or
- > QuattroPro. Lets say you have a small calculator program,
- > like the toy ones which pop up in some windowing front
- > ends. Would it be possible to apply random mutations to
- > Calculator until it evolves into Spreadsheet?
-
- What kind of a feedback system are we dealing with?
-
- Kent
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