Folks,

...and another book about StarLogo is comming according with Amazon.com - Adventures in Modeling: Exploring Complex, Dynamics Systems with StarLogo - by Vanessa Colella, Eric Klopfer and Mitch Resnick. I am waiting StarSqueak to have a lot of fun with it too ;)

Cheers,

Antonio Barros

John.Maloney@disney.com wrote: Anyone who's interested in simulations, especially simulations of biological systems, will find Mitchel's book:

 Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams:
   Explorations in Massively Parallel Microworlds
   (MIT Press, 1994)

fascinating reading. After reading it, I just couldn't keep myself from implementing the core ideas in Squeak. I'd say the performance of the Java version says a lot about what's wrong with Java. The Mac version of StarLogo was written in Lisp, I believe, and it's quite fast.

Let me second that. StarLogo is fun, and it's plenty fast enough, but the ideas in the book are even better.