Hi!
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Alberto G. Corona
Of course there are smooth zones in the fitness landscape of any code. what is necessary is to direct the process by avoiding absurd replacements (mutations that goes straight to dead zones) and rules for changing from a smooth to another smooth area once the local maximum is not satisfactory. Or to detect them as early as possible (that is, rules again). That is what I mentioned before.
But this is not blind evolution as we know it. Of course, if you want to speed up things you can use such techniques you are mentioning. But this techniques use prior knowledge for this particular set of problems. Evolution in general does not care about this. It has all the time it needs.
Moreover, the genetic code has evolved to evolve.
I agree with that.
Neither Haskell nor any conventional language has.
True. We should evolve also the language itself, not just programs. Mitar