I found this very cool C++ sample , literally the "Hello World!" of genetic algorithms.

I so decided to re-code the whole thing in C# and this is the result.

Now I am asking myself: is there any practical application along the lines of generating a target string starting from a population of random strings?

EDIT: my buddy on twitter just tweeted that "is useful for transcription type things such as translation. Does not have to be Monkey's". I wish I had a clue.