Re: evolutionary programming & Lua

[neil@... (Neil Metcalfe, Md iplay tel. 0181 882 5885)]

hi

luc did you put me on a lua mailing list? please keep me on it as it
seems very relevant. hope all is going vertical!!


On Thu, 19 Aug 1999 17:04:53 -0300 (EST), you wrote:

>Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
>> Here is a simple implementation of arithmetic expressions in Lua that should
>> be adequate for evolutionary programming.
>>..
>> E{add,1,{mul,2,3}}
>
>I like this example, but isn't this going to be alot slower than doing it
>as Dolfi suggested in Scheme? I suppose that you could also write something
>to turn these structures into a string and call dostring() but then you've
>got the whole code structure -> text -> compiled code that scheme avoids.
>
>Steve
>


Best Regards,

Neil Metcalfe, Md iplay