A Python library for writing distributed self-replicating programs

Re:A Python library for writing distributed self-replicating... by james_s_tayler on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @09:36PM (#21580650)

So they're kind of like an abstract base class of life that is missing an implementation of metabolize()

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Re:A Python library for writing distributed self-replicating... by ngcc_hk on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @10:04PM (#21580770)

More like abstract method or protocol or prototype one has to implement for any life base class.

But probably You have an virus object just have a subset of the base class.

Of course if you have a class system that allow multiple inheritance that it will be one of the crucial base classes.

Under lisp ...

Let us stop.

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Re:A Python library for writing distributed self-replicating... by ngcc_hk on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @10:19PM (#21580836)

In this particular case it is not really a virus: “ Mitogen interacts with many aspects of the operating system, threading, SSH, sudo, sockets, TTYs, shell, Python runtime, and timing and ordering uncertainty introduced through interaction with the network, GIL and OS scheduling.”

It is more like a networked python program calling shell ;-).

Problem is usually virus is assembler level or C bare metal or minimum dependence on certain aspect of host Env. All virus is small. A subset.

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