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Comment by sltkr 3 days ago

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Fun fact about Game of Life is that the leading algorithm, HashLife[1], uses immutable data structures. It's quite well suited to functional languages, and was in fact originally implemented in Lisp by Bill Gosper.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashlife