On 3/22/06, skip at pobox.com <skip at pobox.com> wrote: > Sounds kind of like Core Wars. Started in 1984 with a column by > A.K. Dewdney in Scientific American. > > http://mcraeclan.com/Graeme/CoreWars.htm Yep, that's it exactly. The perlwars guys acknowledge that it's a corewars port. Chris