Editing APL (programming language) (section)

==== Game of Life ====
The following function "life", written in Dyalog APL,<ref>{{cite AV media |authorlink=John M. Scholes |last1=Scholes |first1=John |date=January 26, 2009 |title=Conway's Game of Life in APL |medium=video |url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9xAKttWgP4 |location= |publisher=[[YouTube]]|access-date=November 20, 2021}}</ref><ref>Further technical details in [https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life APL Wiki's article "Conway's Game of Life"]. Retrieved November 20, 2021.</ref> takes a Boolean matrix and calculates the new generation according to [[Conway's Game of Life]]. It demonstrates the power of APL to implement a complex algorithm in very little code, but understanding it requires some advanced knowledge of APL (as the same program would in many languages).

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life ← {⊃1 ⍵ ∨.∧ 3 4 = +/ +⌿ ¯1 0 1 ∘.⊖ ¯1 0 1 ⌽¨ ⊂⍵}
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