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		silentbicycle on Dec 19, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The rise of Python in computational science I think papaf means all GP done in his/her computational biology lab, specifically.

jast on Dec 19, 2009 [–]

On a second reading, you're right. But the truth is that in the EC community, and GP in particular, Lisp is not used. 1/2 of C++ speed is just considered too slow. IMHO, I guess speed is just the easy excuse.

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