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		smanek on Jan 9, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Conway's Game Of Life in one line of APL Most of it was just messing with APL's REPL to build up the less than 3 lines that actually mattered. That's why I like languages with REPL-like functionality (Lisp, Python, Haskell, etc) so much. It makes for much faster debugging/development loop. Whenever I code Java/C, I always end up using a tiny 'Testing' file (on the side of my real project) with lots of print statements that serves as a poor man's REPL. But it's still much slower.

tvon on Jan 9, 2010 [–]

> Most of it was just messing with APL's REPL to build up the less than 3 lines that actually mattered.

Fair enough, and good to know. It was a very cool demo, I just don't care for the "in one line" or "in fifteen minutes" nonsense.

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