This program is copyrighted, but may be
downloaded and used by anyone for personal or education purposes as long as the source is acknowledged. Commercial distribution of the
program is prohibited.
Documentation is contained within the program in the form of "Description" or "Explanation" help files.
The idea for WordEvol comes from a DOS based computer program by Stephen Prata that accompanied his book Artifical Life Playhouse, 1993, Waite Group Publishing. The book is out of print but the idea of using a mutation/natural selection strategy to demonstrate how efficiently meaning can evolve from a meaningless string of random letters is very powerful and effective.
However, we wanted a more flexible Windows based interface that allowed us to do more than the DOS based version. So, Steve Baedke programmed WordEvolv in a Windows version, with design and documentation by Lynn Fichter.
