Conway's Game of Life in one line of APL  This program features
in "Dr.Dobbs", Feb. 2007  There is also a Slovak translation.
...and a Serbo-Croatian translation.  ...and a Czech
translation.  As a side note: please also check out my comic
book about philosophy.  An explanation  If you are not familiar
with Convey's Game of Life or APL programming language, I
recommend to consult the very short description of APL and the
description of Conway's Game of Life. Besides, on this page you
will find IBM APL2 interpreter and several language references.
This detailed explanation of the APL program that prints out N
generations of the initial configuration M of the Game of Life
will also serve as a brief and very informal course in APL.
Before we start to decipher (this seems to be the correct word
here) the Life program, let's try to work out the strategy of
how to write this program in one line, no matter how impossible
it sounds. Life is a cyclic game by its very nature and - surely
- the algorithm implementing