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I think many of us have indeed programmed a GoL at some point. I've repeatedly done that when learning new languages a decade ago. May he rest in peace

• BurningFrog 7y ago
  Yeah, I built a Game of Life way back when.
• DennisP 7y ago
  It was my first program in Turbo Pascal. Until then I'd been a BASICA programmer and opposed to "structured programming," which I thought would stifle my creativity. I'd spend long days with code printouts all over the floor, tracing through GOTOs to find my bugs. Then dad brought home Turbo and I tried it out with the GoL. It worked correctly the first time it ran. That had never happened to me before. I never touched BASICA again. Sad to see Conway go. He was born the same year as my dad, who died several months ago.
  • eru 7y ago
    Have a look at Hashlife (eg via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashlife https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashlife) to see some exciting ways to compute GoL faster.
    • tripzilch 7y ago
      Agreed! The first time I learned about this algorithm, I was pretty mind blown :)