THE VIDEO SHELF · apl array programming
Conway's Game Of Life in APL
A short Dyalog demonstration building Conway's Game of Life in a single line of APL, step by step. It shows how array operations replace loops.
Why HN readers recommended it
Recommended whenever APL or array languages come up as the quickest way to see why the paradigm is so striking.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Dyalog
- Topic
- apl array programming
- Format
- demo
- Level
- intro
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 11
- HN mentions in dataset
- 20
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2010–2024
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
Excerpts from the recorded comments. Follow each source for the full comment and surrounding discussion.
It has an incredible amount of elegant power for some things (see [VIDEO] if you want to immediately fall in love). But I've found that trying to use it for most things just isn't worthwhile. It feels like cheating every time I have to escape …
sblom on Hacker News · 2012-04
In A Programming Language, now in HTML (50th anniversary)While we wait for the site to come back up please enjoy this amazing video showing Conway's Game of Life in APL: [VIDEO]
jboggan on Hacker News · 2015-06
In Try APL in your browserThe following video is probably reasonably well known, and I wish that I had a more intelligent commentary than to say that it blows my mind, but it does I think bear out the point of expressivity rather well. [VIDEO] Conway's Game of Life in …
sethrin on Hacker News · 2018-07
In APL at Its Core
Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.