life/README.md

   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.
   9
  10 Each of the implementations (living in sequentially numbered directories) shall
  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 |
  18 |-----|----------|----------|
  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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  26 [array()]: http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/array.html "Which is not actually an array, but an integer-keyed tree."
  27 [gen_server]: http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/gen_server.html
  28 [Conway's Game of Life]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conways_Game_of_Life