Not that I’m complaining; I want to see more APL discussion but…please can we do something other than the exact same Game of Life one-liner in every article? APL is not Life: The Language. I’m not exaggerating when I say that something like 99% of pop-APL articles are the dissecting the exact same Game of Life example.
It’s because they can’t actually write anything meaningful in the language so they just quote the example they found. So I’d argue it’s likely that we can’t do something other than the exact same Game of Life one-liner, because we’re not capable.
Not that I’m complaining; I want to see more APL discussion but…please can we do something other than the exact same Game of Life one-liner in every article? APL is not Life: The Language. I’m not exaggerating when I say that something like 99% of pop-APL articles are the dissecting the exact same Game of Life example.
It’s like Quicksort in Haskell.
It’s because they can’t actually write anything meaningful in the language so they just quote the example they found. So I’d argue it’s likely that we can’t do something other than the exact same Game of Life one-liner, because we’re not capable.