John Conway's Game of Life

John Conway passed away recently, so let's look at his Game of Life from the APL/J/K perspective.

https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/eem/life.htm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22845249
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9xAKttWgP4

And a recent ode to J, that explains the first prototype that Arthur Withney and Ken Iverson wrote in an afternoon. I remember having great fun deciphering it 3 years ago on the flights back and from $WORK at that time, and people staring at me reading that printed code and WTFing.