- author = "Lee Spector and Chris Perry and Jon Klein and Maarten Keijzer",
- title = "Push 3.0 Programming Language Description",
- institution = "School of Cognitive Science, Hampshire College",
- year = "2004",
- number = "HC-CSTR-2004-02",
- address = "USA",
- month = "10 " # sep,
- keywords = "genetic algorithms, genetic programming",
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URL = "
http://www.hampshire.edu/cms_PDF/HC-CSTR-2004-02.pdf",
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URL = "
http://faculty.hampshire.edu/lspector/push3-description.html",
- abstract = "Push is a programming language intended primarily for use in evolutionary computation systems (such as genetic programming systems), as the language in which evolving programs are expressed. Push has an unusually simple syntax, which facilitates the development (or evolution) of mutation and recombination operators that generate and manipulate programs. Despite this simple syntax, Push provides more expressive power than most other program representations that are used for program evolution. Push programs can process multiple data types (without the syntax restrictions that usually accompany this capability), and they can express and make use of arbitrary control structures (e.g. recursive subroutines and macros) through the explicit manipulation of their own code (via a 'CODE' data type). This allows Push to support the automatic evolution of modular program architectures in a particularly simple way, even when it Push is employed in an otherwise ordinary genetic programming system (such as PushGP, which is a 'generic' GP system except that it evolves Push programs rather than Lisp-style program trees). Push can also support entirely new evolutionary computation paradigms such as 'autoconstructive evolution,' in which genetic operators and other components of the evolutionary system themselves evolve (as in the Pushpop and SwarmEvolve2 systems).",
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notes = "referenced by \cite{1068292}
Successor to the Push 2.0 Programming Language Description, from which it borrows large chunks of text.",
- size = "26 pages",
