Re: The game of life

>> I think that's something that perl6 could do better then APL. If anyone would like to channel this APL energy into APL-on-parrot, I'm sure it could some attention since the parrot 1.0 release. =) http://parAPLegic.googlecode.com/ The original implementation was basically a proof of concept to

Re: The game of life

yary not.com-at-gmail.com |Perl 6| wrote: The rho example is interesting, though it doesn't compile in current Rakudo. "1 2 3 ⍴¨ 10 would natively be written in Perl 6 as 10 »xx« (1,2,3)." perl6 complains about non-dwimmyness. 10 <> (1,2,3) gi

Re: The game of life

Em Qui, 2009-05-28 às 00:26 -0500, John M. Dlugosz escreveu: > Mark J. Reed markjreed-at-gmail.com |Perl 6| wrote: > > Perhaps Perl 6 should not aspire to the expressiveness of APL. :) As > > nice as it is that you can write Conway's Life in a one-liner(*), I > > think that a little verbosity now

Re: The game of life

yary not.com-at-gmail.com |Perl 6| wrote: Though I'm not quite sure that S03 covers some of the different-dimension cases. my @table= (1,2,3; 4,5,6); # is this the syntax to create 2d array? No, the Capture on the right, although a Capture of Captures, will be flattened in the list contex

Re: The game of life

yary not.com-at-gmail.com |Perl 6| wrote: That was a big part of it... I'm glad Mark posted the APL snippet because it got me to finally read up on the language that's been at the back of my mind. Plus it's useful for p6 language discussion. APL (and a successor, J) may still have a few tricks to

Re: The game of life

//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language) - install fonts as needed, they're also referenced from there. Then move on to the links posted earlier about the game of life, they do a great job of explaining the one-liners. http://aplwiki.com/GameOfLife - short version, one generation, m

Re: The game of life

yary not.com-at-gmail.com |Perl 6| wrote: If anyone wants to try tackling this, a longer APL one-liner is referenced on the APL wikipedia page and discussed in length here: http://catpad.net/michael/apl/ As an aside, APL was the first computer language I was exposed to. When I was around 7 year

Re: The game of life

> "y" == yary writes: y> If anyone wants to try tackling this, a longer APL one-liner is y> referenced on the APL wikipedia page and discussed in length here: y> http://catpad.net/michael/apl/ y> As an aside, APL was the first computer language I was exposed to. y> When I was aro

Re: The game of life

And a link explaining the shorter one-liner: http://aplwiki.com/GameOfLife

Re: The game of life

If anyone wants to try tackling this, a longer APL one-liner is referenced on the APL wikipedia page and discussed in length here: http://catpad.net/michael/apl/ As an aside, APL was the first computer language I was exposed to. When I was around 7 years old my aunt (who lived in Boston near MIT,

The game of life

Mark J. Reed markjreed-at-gmail.com |Perl 6| wrote: Perhaps Perl 6 should not aspire to the expressiveness of APL. :) As nice as it is that you can write Conway's Life in a one-liner(*), I think that a little verbosity now and then is a good thing for legibility (*) life ←{↑1 ω⌵.^3 4=+/,‾1