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I don't see a reason to write the genetic algorithm in Lisp, but for the code that's being evolved it seems like the logical choice due to its minimal syntax.

by dmoney 15y ago

I don't see a reason to write the genetic algorithm in Lisp, but for the code that's being evolved it seems like the logical choice due to its minimal syntax. I'm working on a PHP program for evolving programs, and the evolved programs are in a lisp-like dialect made for just that purpose.

user24 15y ago
IIRC it's something to do with the fact that lisp can easily be represented as a tree and so crossover is very simple; just swap branches. I don't know lisp so I'm just regurgitating info I picked up at university.
- kruhft 15y ago
  One problem with using that technique is that it's has been patented, along with derivatives of it, for quite a while.