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Re:Evolutionary Algorithm: Evolving "Hello, World" by user24 on Wednesday September 28, 2011 @07:41AM (#3047382)
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.
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Re:Evolutionary Algorithm: Evolving "Hello, World" by kruhft on Wednesday September 28, 2011 @10:29AM (#3047981)
One problem with using that technique is that it's has been patented, along with derivatives of it, for quite a while.
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