AI::Evolve::Befunge
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This is an evolutionary algorithm module written in Perl.  It produces small
programs in a language named Befunge, which have been determined to fit a
specified set of criteria.

It is designed to provide a practical means of evolving useful AI programs.
It takes a while to run but has verifiable results.

Please see the POD documentation included in the AI::Evolve::Befunge module
itself, for the details.


INSTALLATION

To install this module type the following:

   perl Build.PL
   ./Build
   ./Build test
   sudo ./Build install

You can copy the config file, example.conf, to /etc/ai-evolve-befunge.conf and
edit it to your heart's content.


DEPENDENCIES

This module requires these other modules and libraries:

perl 5.10.0
Algorithm::Evolutionary::Wheel
aliased
Class::Accessor::Fast
Language::Befunge >= 4.00
Language::Befunge::Storage::Generic::Vec::XS >= 0.02
Language::Befunge::Vector::XS >= 1.1.0
LWP::UserAgent
Parallel::Iterator
Perl6::Export::Attrs
Task::Weaken
Test::Exception
Test::MockRandom
Test::Output
UNIVERSAL::require
YAML

In addition to the above, the test suite can optionally use Test::Pod and
Devel::Leak.  Without each of these, it will skip a portion of the tests.
Note: the Devel::Leak tests result in a lot of ugly hexspam, so it probably
isn't worth the trouble.  The Pod test is nice though.


AUTHOR

    Mark Glines <mark-befunge@glines.org>


CONTACT

You can either email me at the above address, or find me on irc.magnet.net with
the nickname "Infinoid".  If you want to tell me how much the module rules or
sucks, or if you have any questions about it, that's a good place to start.  If
you have a specific bug or feature you want to tell me about (or better yet, a
patch), you can send it to:

    bug-AI-Evolve-Befunge@rt.cpan.org

That will add it to the issue tracker so it won't get lost.


COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This module is copyright (c) 2007-2009 Mark Glines.

It is distributed under the terms of the Artistic License 2.0.
For more details, see the full text of the license in the file LICENSE.

Special note: from the perspective of this module, the generated Befunge
programs are simply data.  They are products of the way in which you decided
to run this module, and random chance.  So from a licensing perspective, they
are NOT considered to be a derived work of this perl module.