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Not so exciting but still pretty cool: Conways Game of Life in a few lines of otus lisp* https://github.com/yuriy-chumak/ol/blob/master/samples/Conve...

* otus lisp is a descendant of owl lisp (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utOVF0U7Zd8) with a nice ffi - http://yuriy-chumak.github.io/ol/

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Wow, thanks for those links. I am well acquainted with Lisp, but I never stumbled upon these. The video was great too.

I have played with Wasp Lisp which is very cool and the Wasp VM. And checkout how it can spawn drone nodes on different machines[1,2]. I think C and Lisp together are amazing. I have been using them for decades, but J and APL entered my life over 8 years ago, and I am hooked! Checkout a rework of the famous APL GoL demo. It's much easier to understand than the original[3]

[1] https://github.com/swdunlop/WaspVM

[2] https://bluishcoder.co.nz/2015/02/19/spawning-windows-comman...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMslgySQ8nc

Thanks for the links. Stumbled upon Otus Lisp / Owl-Lisp while looking for a sh/lua replacement for OpenWrt - the small footprint and architecture independend binary format as well as the FFI for .so files are looking great for that. Here is a complete documentation for the language: https://haltp.org/posts/owl.html that applies to both.

The one block for me is that I work on Windows, Linux, and Mac, and I don't like using Cygwin or MinGW with Windows. I am using Corman Lisp on my Windows machine for Windows-specific stuff and Jane before I heard of Owl and Otus Lisp. I do like Wasp Lisp's VM and C FFI too. Are you sticking with Owl/Otus?

I wonder when someone will code GoL inside GoL

It's already done:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP5-iIeKXE8

Look up the OTCA metapixel.

This video doesn’t go into any detail, but is perhaps the best illustration of the concept.

https://youtu.be/xP5-iIeKXE8

Edit: yes I am late to the party.

A while ago...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP5-iIeKXE8

Given there is a Lisp implementation of GoL and a GoL implementation of Lisp, it's already done!

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