On 30/12/2008, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonavaro(a)gmail.com> wrote:
This is probably not the response you are looking for,
but for
me a glider is the "hacker emblem", or any one of ASCII, or
graphical representations of the pattern
Well, when I was younger I implemented Conway's Life many times.
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Being a representation of a pattern in John Conway's game
of Life, which will travel in a diagonal line, unless it comes
up on territory with other content.
Yes, then it often disintegrates. I don't think it will take over from
the aircraft territory articles for that reason, alas their other
lesser content will get in the way. ;-)
Yours,
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
Hacker != Cracker!
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-Ian Woollard
We live in an imperfectly imperfect world. Life in a perfectly
imperfect world would be much better.