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Or you could have written a code generation tool. But I guess for this kind of job it might have been overkill and introduce its own special bitrot.
by jonathanstrange 8y ago
Or you could have written a code generation tool. But I guess for this kind of job it might have been overkill and introduce its own special bitrot.
- TeMPOraL 8y agoGP was essentially being a protein-based transpiler. The reference source code was the appropriate legislation; the code GP wrote was transpilation output. Since biological transpilers are slow and error prone, it makes sense to keep the output as close as possible to the input, to allow for "incremental transpiling" ;).
- nuclx 8y agoIt can still makes sense to translate the rules into a parseable format instead of hard-coding them, to allow for code generation (or dynamic evaluation) and programmatic analysis of the rules.