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1 | Games of Life |
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| 5 | Description | |
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7 | I want to try several different approaches to implementing [Conway's Game of |
| 8 | Life]. It shall be recorded in this repo. | |
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| 10 | Each of the implementations (living in sequentially numbered directories) shall | |
| d9eb5426 | 11 | (eventually) have its own README file, documenting the approach taken. |
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| 14 | Summary | |
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| 17 | | ID | Language | Approach | | |
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| 19 | | 001 | Erlang | Board as 1D list. Cells as [gen_server] processes | | |
| 20 | | 002 | OCaml | Board as matrix via functional arrays (sort-of...) | | |
| 21 | | 003 | Erlang | Board as matrix via [array()] | | |
| 22 | | 004 | AWK | Board as 1D string. Ghosts beyond boundaries | | |
| 23 | | 005 | AWK | Board as simulated 3D array | | |
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| 11f0def6 | 26 | [array()]: http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/array.html "Which is not actually an array, but an integer-keyed tree." |
| c3a63cc7 | 27 | [gen_server]: http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/gen_server.html |
| e3da0a3b | 28 | [Conway's Game of Life]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conways_Game_of_Life |