7.2.2 Future

At the moment, the plan is to get to a fully-functioning Monod Culture prototype as soon as possible, while making sure that an acceptable architecture is laid out. Severe inefficiencies are tolerated in order to get to this state faster. The following Monod framework milestones are currently planned:

• v0.1: A single Monod Cell running a hand-coded genome that successfully performs arithmetic computations.
• v0.3: A Monod Culture is able to do polynomial symbolic regression with noisy input.
• v0.5: A Monod Culture able to co-evolve a single cell genome that successfully performs arithmetic operations on binary strings along with the gradual evolution of the environment by providing increasingly long strings.
• v0.8: A Monod Culture able to *learn* a given BNF grammar through co-evolution of a multi-cell genome in a priming environment of examples and counter-examples, and to probabilistically assess the validity of prompted strings.
• v1.0: Code and architecture cleanup, documentation up-to-date, etc.
• v2.0: One pass through the whole TODO file, which contains many postponed improvements to the program.