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Conway's Game Of Life in APL

Dyalog · Jan 26, 2009 · 7m 48s

What this video covers

A short Dyalog demonstration building Conway's Game of Life in a single line of APL, step by step. It shows how array operations replace loops.

Why it surfaced in Hacker News

Recommended whenever APL or array languages come up as the quickest way to see why the paradigm is so striking.

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Recommendation context

Short excerpts from positive mentions. Open the source to read the full Hacker News discussion.

“see if you want to immediately fall in love”

“please enjoy this amazing video showing Conway's Game of Life in APL”

“it blows my mind”

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