ANN: pygene - genetic algorithms package

[Erik Max Francis]

aum wrote:

> Correct. Organisms of a species have a fixed genome.

My bad, you had mentioned in the announcement that you had looked at 
genetic programming systems but didn't claim that pygene was itself a 
genetic programming system.  I misread that; my apologies.

 >> I've been planning on releasing my stack-based genetic programming
 >> system Psi (implemented in Python) at some point in the future, FYI.
 >
> Has it got an approachable API? Good doco? Examples understandable by
> newbies? Hope so. There's a lot of good software that gets ruined because
> insufficient work has been put in to its usability and comprehensibility.

That's what I'm working on while polishing it for release.  It's also 
the case that a well-designed class hierarchy will help folks understand 
the tools that are available to them.  "Understandable by newbies" isn't 
all that a high a priority for me when writing complex software; what's 
useful is writing software that's easily used by someone familiar with 
the general concepts, familiar with programming, and familiar with the 
language that the project is implemented in.  You can't teach all things 
simultaneously; I'm not sure creating a genetic programming (or genetic 
algorithms) system that's useful to "newbies" (whatever that means) is 
even a useful goal in and of itself.

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