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A Lisp interpreter implemented in Conway's Game of Life (2021)

#1

Post by peebz » Thu, Jan 05, 2023, 8:42 PM UTC

A Lisp interpreter implemented in Conway's Game of Life (2021)
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Re: A Lisp interpreter implemented in Conway's Game of Life (2021)

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Post by deterministic » Fri, Jan 06, 2023, 1:37 AM UTC

This is super cool. The levels of abstraction needed to do this makes my geek brain explode. In a good way :)

Re: A Lisp interpreter implemented in Conway's Game of Life (2021)

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Post by dang » Sat, Jan 07, 2023, 2:35 AM UTC

Discussed at the time:

A Lisp Interpreter Implemented in Conway's Game of Life - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29661616 - Dec 2021 (85 comments)

Re: A Lisp interpreter implemented in Conway's Game of Life (2021)

#4

Post by buggythebug » Sat, Jan 07, 2023, 2:54 AM UTC

Enough...with...lisp....

Re: A Lisp interpreter implemented in Conway's Game of Life (2021)

#5

Post by jxy » Sat, Jan 07, 2023, 4:11 AM UTC

But will it run Doom?

Re: A Lisp interpreter implemented in Conway's Game of Life (2021)

#6

Post by ashton314 » Sat, Jan 07, 2023, 4:26 AM UTC

buggythebug wrote: post #4

Enough...with...lisp....

Fine, fine. We can do ISWIM next time.

Re: A Lisp interpreter implemented in Conway's Game of Life (2021)

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Post by agency » Sat, Jan 07, 2023, 4:32 AM UTC

buggythebug wrote: post #4

Enough...with...lisp....

never!

Re: A Lisp interpreter implemented in Conway's Game of Life (2021)

#8

Post by sph » Sat, Jan 07, 2023, 5:30 AM UTC

buggythebug wrote: post #4

Enough...with...lisp....

3 months ago you described yourself as a "non-techie", and you come here of all places, and cry about too much Lisp? You've taken a wrong turn, pal. This house was built with parens.

Sent from my Lisp Machine.

Re: A Lisp interpreter implemented in Conway's Game of Life (2021)

#9

Post by aradox66 » Sat, Jan 07, 2023, 5:55 AM UTC

The next step is clearly to run emacs on this puppy

Re: A Lisp interpreter implemented in Conway's Game of Life (2021)

#10

Post by mftb » Sat, Jan 07, 2023, 7:30 AM UTC

> Generating a small enough pattern that runs in a reasonable amount of time required a lot of effort.

lol. Programming skills and expert-level understatement. Nice. This is a cool thing.

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