Artificial Life techniques have a potential use in ecological models, but they have not yet been programmed in Ada. Ada tasks provide a powerful means to express the behavior of self-reproductive autonomous individuals. This article shows how artificial organisms with a complicated reproduction (alternation of sexual and asexual generations) have been implemented in an ecological simulation software written in Ada.
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