I think the point is rather in the opposite direction. He's not trying to argue that APL and the GOL problem are somehow uniquely matched. The idea is that yeah

I think the point is rather in the opposite direction. He's not trying to argue that APL and the GOL problem are somehow uniquely matched. The idea is that yeah, APL makes a pretty solution, but it wouldn't be nearly as impressive if the parameters were changed. The point is that the APL solution people like to toss out is not flexible. Probably true of the 32b ASM demo too.