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Evolve

NOTE: This program is obsolete. A newer version is availble here.

Introduction

Evolve is my first Eiffel application. It will run on Windows 98, Windows ME and Window NT.

It uses ISE 4.5.

Download Links

Evolve online documentation
Eiffel Source Code: This is all the eiffel source, including support files.
Genetic Programs: These are needed to create a new simulation.
Evolve Documentation: Sorry, not much here. The HTML documentation. Same as this link.
Borland C++ Builder: This is the original C++ source for the same program. It may be interesting to some for compaisions between the two languages.
Windows Executable: This is the compiled Eiffel code. It will run on any Windows systems.

What is it?

Evolve is a evolution simulator in which 2-dimensional critters compete against each other. Each organism has a genetic program (similar to a core-wars program).

The online documentation is very incomplete. But this has some good screen shots and a basic overview.

About the Eiffel code

As mentioned before this is my first complete eiffel application. I ported Evolve from a version I had written in Borland Builder C++. The eiffel version has many new features so the two are no longer identical.

If you are learning eiffel, or you are hunting for example code, then this project includes many useful constructs:

How to make dialogs and interface with WEL
How to draw and do simple graphics in WEL
How to use GOBO yacc
How to use the FILE_DIALOG
How to use STORAGE for reading/writing eiffel objects to files.
A random number generator ported from unix source code.
Ellipse/line/curve drawing algorithms ported to eiffel.
Example of an iterator, and its reuse in many places.

Since this was my first eiffel project, not everything is ideal. I was trying to wean myself from a C/C++ background.

I didn't use command/query principles as much as I should have
In some places I used UPPERCASE for constants, instead of a single Uppercase letter.

About the C++ code

The c++ code will not run, because I have lost the borland project files, etc.. But one can still compare the C++ code to the eiffel code.

How manual memory allocation obscures the underlying logic of the program
How the obsession with performance leads to bit-twiddling (and bugs).
The core simulator is actually written in C code (because that was the original unix version I developed, before I knew C++).
Only the borland GUI stuff is in C++.

Public Domain

This code is 100% in the public domain. Go ahead and use it freely and make millions of dollars from it. I'll do the same if I have the time. (Make sure you own the Professional version of ISE eiffel though!)


Last changed: Dec 26, 2001	Evolve (c) 2001 Ken Stauffer	kjs@stauffercom.com