Joachim Breitner  Introducing L-seed  Published 2009-06-13 in
sections English, Haskell.  In two weeks, the eighth „Gulasch-
Programmier-Nacht“ will be held in Karlsruhe, a yearly geek
event  by the Entropia e.V, which is the local CCC club. It
will, as usually, offer a lot of interesting talks and events.
One of my personal highlights have always been the programming
games: Games, where you write your own code to compete against
others, while the playing field is projected in the hacking
area. The last few years, dividuum has done a great job
providing these (as regular readers of my blog might remember).
This year, I’m trying to follow in his footsteps and will
provide the programming game, called „L-seed“. This blog post is
an introduction (and a call for contribution, at the bottom of
the post :-))  The idea  The participants will write code (the
„genome“) that describes how plants (the biological type, not
the industrial) will grow. The plants will grow simultaneously
on the screen (the „garden“), will c