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by woodrush
September 3rd, 2023, 3:20 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Lisp in Life - Lisp Interpreter in Conway's Game of Life
Replies: 11
Views: 4497

Re: Lisp in Life - Lisp Interpreter in Conway's Game of Life

Thanks dvgrn and Yoel for your comments! Also thanks for nominating Lisp in Life as the Pattern of the Year 2022 patterns, and to the people who have voted for the pattern. I'm very happy to hear that many of you have found my work interesting!


[...] The blog post is definitely worth a look! Some ...
by woodrush
January 28th, 2022, 2:52 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Lisp in Life - Lisp Interpreter in Conway's Game of Life
Replies: 11
Views: 4497

Re: Lisp in Life - Lisp Interpreter in Conway's Game of Life


That would already be super cool !

Thanks!


Sorry I don't really get why developing a list interpreter ? Why not a compiler ?

The main purpose that I find interesting in running an interpreter on GoL instead of compiling the code beforehand, is that we can allow Conway's Game of Life ...
by woodrush
January 27th, 2022, 12:09 pm
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Lisp in Life - Lisp Interpreter in Conway's Game of Life
Replies: 11
Views: 4497

Re: Lisp in Life - Lisp Interpreter in Conway's Game of Life

Thanks! I tried running the pattern in your repo. The pixel display looks awesome!

I looked at the instruction set in your computer and it seems to cover everything included in the current Lisp assembly, so it seems to be possible to fit the Lisp interpreter assembly to a size similar to the ...
by woodrush
January 10th, 2022, 4:33 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Lisp in Life - Lisp Interpreter in Conway's Game of Life
Replies: 11
Views: 4497

Re: Lisp in Life - Lisp Interpreter in Conway's Game of Life

Thanks Macbi and dvgrn for your feedback! I was curious about how the task of processing languages were discussed in GoL so I was happy to know about it.

I think the heavy use of OTCA Metapixels when metafying the QFT architecture is a large drawback too. It was the main problem that required me to ...
by woodrush
January 8th, 2022, 5:42 pm
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Lisp in Life - Lisp Interpreter in Conway's Game of Life
Replies: 11
Views: 4497

Re: Lisp in Life - Lisp Interpreter in Conway's Game of Life

I wanted to ask two questions, one about the Game of Life, and another about how I could improve my post quality.

The first one is, I was wondering if there are other instances where a high-level programming language was interpreted inside a Conway's Game of Life pattern, or if this was the first ...
by woodrush
December 22nd, 2021, 10:58 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Lisp in Life - Lisp Interpreter in Conway's Game of Life
Replies: 11
Views: 4497

Lisp in Life - Lisp Interpreter in Conway's Game of Life

Hi everyone, it's my first time posting here.

I created Lisp in Life, a Lisp interpreter that runs on Conway's Game of Life.
The pattern is available at my GitHub repo: https://github.com/woodrush/lisp-in-life

The Lisp program is provided by editing certain cells in the pattern to represent the ...