Conway's Game Of Life in one line of APL

Re:Conway's Game Of Life in one line of APL by jacquesm on Saturday January 09, 2010 @11:45AM (#1041612)

I don't know the origin of the quote but 'if you need more than one line of APL you do not fully understand your problem'.

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Re:Conway's Game Of Life in one line of APL by profquail on Saturday January 09, 2010 @01:47PM (#1041778)

Also:

  "There are three things a man must do
   before his life is done;
   Write two lines in APL,
   And make the buggers run."
   -- Stan Kelly-Bootle, 'The Devil's DP Dictionary'

And:

  "APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection.
   It is the language of the future, for the programming
   techniques of the past: it creates a new generation
   of coding bums."
   -- Edsger Dijkstra

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