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From: andrewt@aisb.ed.ac.uk (Andrew Tuson)
Subject: Re: GA in Fortran?
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Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 10:47:35 GMT
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In article <45g2h5$bun@hippo.shef.ac.uk> ELP95RJM@shef.ac.uk (Ruth Mitchell) writes:

>I was wondering, does anyone have an opinion on whether Fortran 77
>is a good or bad language to program a GA in? Any comments will be
>most gratefully taken note of.

When I did my final year chemistry project in GAs. I used C, but most of the
people who did GAs used FORTRAN with no problems. Any general-purpose 
language is fine for GAs. The only criteria that matter to me are whether I'm 
comfortable with the language, and there's a good, fast complier for it. I 
use C, but FORTRAN is fine if you're used to it.

-- 
Andrew Tuson (andrewt@aisb.ed.ac.uk)

Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K.
An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the
grand fallacy..........:-)
