A Lisp Interpreter Implemented in Conway’s Game of Life

Lisp in Life is a Lisp interpreter implemented in Conway’s Game of Life. The entire pattern is viewable on the browser here. To the best of my knowledge, this is the first time a high-level programming language was interpreted in Conway’s Game of Life. Running Lisp on the Game of Life Lisp is a language with a simple and elegant design, having an extensive ability to express sophisticated ideas as

[k-takahashi]

『To the best of my knowledge, this is the first time a high-level programming language was interpreted in Conway’s Game of Life.』こんなのあったのか

[tmatsuu]

ライフゲームで実装されたLispインタプリタ。何を言っているんだ

[ABA]

ライフゲームで実装されたLispインタプリタ。C言語のLispインタプリタをライフゲームで実装されたCPU向けにELVMでコンパイルすることで実現

[htsnul]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34266240