Re: Input on choice of programing language

[Marcus G. Daniels]

> I want to build an artificial
> market - in contrast to the SFI-ASM not with GAs but with genetic
> programming - and to assess the impact of different regulations and auction 
> systems on the market effiency. For rigorous analysis, I will need quite 
> powerful statistical tools to calculate heteroskadicity, leptokurtusis etc. I 
> am currently pondering, what programming language I should choose.
Take a look at R.  R is a Lisp-like language and has extremely powerful 
statistical functions.
Being Lisp-like, you can create expressions dynamically and evalulate 
them, as is needed in GP.
There is also a C interface to R features in case you need to make 
blocks of simulation code that run natively.  In other words, you can 
create dynamic agent behaviors from C (or Swarm) if you need to for 
performance.   Since most of GP is fitness evaluation (of interpreted 
code), it may well be the big bottleneck in the simulation, and so you 
might be just as well of writing the whole thing in R.



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