You keep stating that without addressing the arguments. It was your citation to genetic algorithms which states that these programs are searches through solution space. The program I listed does that albeit in a fashion which seems to bother you. Simply, its selection criteria is that only "solutions" having an intial "T" are selected to pass on to be tested for the second letter "O" and so on. The programmer cheats since he does not check for spaces, but that really would be another solution space. The fact that the "genetic" algorithm bothers you(it uses "elitism") does not make it different in class then what you consider a genetic algorithm. I stated this before and you have failed to see it, so this time I will put it in all caps so that you can hardly miss it.
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN TOUTED THIS PROGRAM AS SUPPORT FOR EVOLUTION.
NOw did you see that? You got a problem with it, argue with Scientific American. The real point being is that the solution space is generated by the programmer
Scientific is hardly a bastion of computer programming! In this area they are simply wrong.
You’re a programmer, go and learn. If you choose to remain ignorant, I see no reason to continue.