Comment by llm_trw
14 days ago
I find the difficulty of the chapters goes as the square of their number. Viz. Chapter 5 is 25 times as hard as chapter 1. I also find that basically no one goes past chapter 4. I've only ever seen one good talk on it and the guy was so far down the esolang rabbit hole that he had an IBM apl keyboard.
Not sure I'd call APL an esolang - it's just an old language focused on array manipulation like you'd find in numpy
https://aplwiki.com/wiki/John_Scholes%27_Conway%27s_Game_of_...
I'm not sure how you don't call that an eso lang.
Would you prefer something like this numpy then?
Video of Scholes building up the life APL expression can be seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9xAKttWgP4