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Re:Show HN: XKCD-inspired StackSort by Retric on Monday March 18, 2013 @04:13PM (#5396823)
If you actually want to go down this path then you want a language with as little redundancy as possible. Comments may be useful to humans but they needlessly complicate the search space. Abstractly you want to think about the how your language is parsed so you don't for example try different variable names.

Though if you spend enough time your probably going to be reimplementing some type of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_programming

Re:Show HN: XKCD-inspired StackSort by omra on Monday March 18, 2013 @05:23PM (#5397218)
[Slash/A](https://github.com/arturadib/slash-a) is specially designed for genetic programming / random generation. No matter how you piece together the instructions, it is still a valid program.
Re:Show HN: XKCD-inspired StackSort by Falling3 on Monday March 18, 2013 @04:39PM (#5396976)
Like maybe Brainfuck?
Re:Show HN: XKCD-inspired StackSort by shurcooL on Monday March 18, 2013 @04:46PM (#5397026)
Yep, I was considering directly generating the AST.