HackerConway's Game Of Life in APL
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Implement Life in APL by shifting arrays to count neighbors and applying Boolean rules. The formulation avoids explicit loops and works across board sizes.
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if we sum the vector we see a neighbor count for each cellyou'll notice that it contains no explicit loops and no temporary variablesthe way we've coded it with rotations we've produced life on a Taurusno explicit loops and no temporary variablesoperators that take our life function as an operand