May 09 2009
Lazy Programmer
Over the past few weeks I’ve been a pretty lazy programmer! 
First I spent a few days camping in Norfolk without access to a computer or any decent books. Luckily I found a copy of The Recursive Universe by William Poundstone in one of Holt’s secondhand bookshops. It makes a pretty good browse while sitting on the riverbank with a picnic.
The last couple of weeks have been kind of hectic, but I’ve had the opportunity to look though a few of the programming games on Dennis Luehring’s list of programming games. I picked out CoreLife to experiment with. CoreLife is similar to Corewar, but played in 2 dimensions. Currently I’m attempting to write a replicator.
Speaking of Corewar, this month started off with some sad news. KOTH.org is to close at the end of May and will be missed by the everyone involved. KOTH has served the Corewar community for 15 years, providing a King of the Hill tournament, mailing list and IRC channel.
KOTH’s IRC channel has already moved to #COREWARS on irc.freenode.net and the KOTH webpage has been archive to ensure it won’t fall victim to bitrot. The fate of the hills and mailing list is still being discussed.
