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obfuscatedLife
C2013–2013
duckythescientist / obfuscatedLife

obfuscatedLife

Conway's Game of Life in 9 lines of C

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3Mentions
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306GitHub stars
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Conway's Game of Life in 9 lines of C

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Observed mentions: 2013-11-29 23:30:19 UTC to 2013-11-30 00:30:24 UTC.

0122013-11-29 23:00:00 UTC to 2013-11-30 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsNov 29, 23:002013-11-30 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-11-30 01:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 commentsNov 30, 00:00

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Nov 29, 23:002013-11-29 23:00:00 UTC2013-11-30 00:00:00 UTC110
Nov 30, 00:002013-11-30 00:00:00 UTC2013-11-30 01:00:00 UTC202

What Hacker News says

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I'm sure many would complain about the obfuscated nature of the code. I however find it strangly beautiful. It has the appearance of a strand of DNA and then one marvels at all of the complexity hidden in these cryptic lines. To see it: `git clone https://github.com/duckythescientist/obfuscatedLife.git cd obfuscatedLife gcc life.c ./a.out` Here is a screenshot[1] for anyone who didn't run the code. However a screenshot hardly does the dynamic nature of it justice. [1] http://imgur.com/hWzEWAe
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