genetic programming
     
         (GP) A programming technique which extends the
        genetic algorithm to the domain of whole computer programs.
        In GP, populations of programs are genetically bred to solve
        problems.  Genetic programming can solve problems of system
        identification, classification, control, robotics,
        optimisation, game playing, and pattern recognition.
     
        Starting with a primordial ooze of hundreds or thousands of
        randomly created programs composed of functions and terminals
        appropriate to the problem, the population is progressively
        evolved over a series of generations by applying the
        operations of Darwinian fitness proportionate reproduction and
        crossover (sexual recombination).
     
        (1995-03-31)