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Games of Life
=============


Description
-----------
I want to try several different approaches to implementing Conway's Game of
Life. It shall be recorded in this repo.

Each of the implementations (living in sequentially numbered directories) shall
(eventually) have its own README file, documenting the approach taken.


Summary
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* __ID:__ 001,
  __Language:__ Erlang,
  __Approach:__ Each cell is a gen_server process
* __ID:__ 002,
  __Language:__ OCaml,
  __Approach:__ Traditional matrix
* __ID:__ 003,
  __Language:__ Erlang,
  __Approach:__ Traditional matrix as nested [array()]
* __ID:__ 004,
  __Language:__ AWK,
  __Approach:__ Board as string. Ghosts beyond boundaries


[array()]: http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/array.html "Which is not actually an array, but an integer-keyed tree."
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885ce6b7 SK	2	=============
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	5	Description
	6	-----------
	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
d9eb5426	11	(eventually) have its own README file, documenting the approach taken.
885ce6b7 SK	12
	13
	14	Summary
	15	-------
	16	* __ID:__ 001,
	17	__Language:__ Erlang,
6b184c3b SK	18	__Approach:__ Each cell is a gen_server process
	19	* __ID:__ 002,
	20	__Language:__ OCaml,
	21	__Approach:__ Traditional matrix
ff1de1d8 SK	22	* __ID:__ 003,
ff1de1d8 SK	23	__Language:__ Erlang,
005a5494	24	__Approach:__ Traditional matrix as nested [array()]
11f0def6 SK	25	* __ID:__ 004,
11f0def6 SK	26	__Language:__ AWK,
d9eb5426	27	__Approach:__ Board as string. Ghosts beyond boundaries
005a5494 SK	28
005a5494 SK	29
11f0def6	30	[array()]: http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/array.html "Which is not actually an array, but an integer-keyed tree."