Darren New wrote:
> Kevin Wampler wrote:
>> I ran across a neat youtube video a while ago talking through how to 
>> program a game of life simulator in one line of APL.  I don't know the 
>> language but the video was certainly interesting:
> 
> Wow, that brings back memories.
> 
> You can imagine how easy it is to do stuff like 3D graphics with APL, 
> which is what I was using it for.
> 
> Actually, the language "J" (http://www.jsoftware.com/) is the next level 
> up from APL, letting you write "adjectives" and "adverbs", making APL 
> into a more meta kind of language closer to Haskell than Excel. Plus it 
> uses ASCII, which I think is actually a drawback except from the 
> practical POV.

I read this post while playing Widor's Tocatta. (The easy part near the 
end.)

Damn, I'm getting good at this crap! o_O

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