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Re:Conway's Game Of Life in one line of APL by moe on Saturday January 09, 2010 @11:05AM (#1041574)
Impressed. Not just by the syntax (first time I see APL) but also by how easily he juggles and shapes what is mostly hieroglyphs to me.

I know he was probably following a script to spare us the trial & error. I also know the hieroglyphs could be replaced with ascii-keywords to make it look more down to earth. But still; if I was to come up with a game of life in any language then the process wouldn't look anywhere near this elegant...

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Re:Conway's Game Of Life in one line of APL by gvb on Saturday January 09, 2010 @01:51PM (#1041790)
"I also know the hieroglyphs could be replaced with ascii-keywords to make it look more down to earth."

Not really, that is APL. The keywords in the APL language are mathematical symbols (Greek letters plus a lot more). http://aplwiki.com/AplCharacters#What_exactly_is_.22APL385_U... The result is readable (I assume) to a mathematician, but is hard for mere mortals to read and hard to type without a special keyboard.

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