This discussion took place Sept 6, 1999 at a weekly online discussion presented by Trace Online at LinguaMOO.

Cybele says, "jan this is all intimately related."

MazThing says, "but I am interested in this idea of organisms breeding within the Multiverse Garden..."

Cybele says, "definitely that would be an act of programming."

MazThing says, "I am very new to this, but does this fit with the concept of other classes from other moos etc"

Cybele says, "there are other kinds of robots & objects that people have created which we can copy into here."

Cybele says, "for instance the markov-chaining robots who learn to speak based on remembering conversations its had."

MazThing says, "I have read, I think, that organisms inherit from parents, presumably creators can then modify....do I understand?"

Jan [to MazThing]: all MOOs are derived from LambdaMOO so at the core they are all the same...but each MOO tend to evolve differently...so functions you can find one place may not be the same another place"

Cybele says, "& crossbreeding is possible."

Cybele says, "I think the key with this slide is overcoming the learning curve. collectively, maybe with little sessions with people of varios skills"

Jan says, "The Xpress GUI for example can only be found in MOOs that were built on the enCore extension of LambdaMOO"