This idea has been holding my brain hostage, I hope that implementing it will restore my free will.
🗨️ The canonical game of life function, called LI (Liechtenstein)
🇱🇮🪧🌜👍👍➊ 🤔🛶🔴🐜➌ ➍⚖️🧮🤰😍🥶➊ ⓿ ➊🤐🔴🤣🥶➊ ⓿ ➊🤐🔴🙃🪺🤔🌛
🗨️ An array containing a glider, called GL (Greenland)
🇬🇱🪧➌ ➌📐➊ ➊ ➊ ➊ ⓿ ⓿ ⓿ ➊ ⓿
🗨️ The 8x8 grid to use, called GR (Greece)
🇬🇷🪧🥶➑ 🥶➑👍🇬🇱
🗨️ Print the first 4 steps to the screen
🎮🪧🌜🇱🇮😬🤔➡️🇬🇷🌛🍑⓿😍📚➌
It's APL, but instead of the symbols I used emojis. For example ¨ (each) is now 🍑 (peach), ∧ (and) is now 🐜 (ant), and ⌽ (reverse) is 🙃.
I didn't implement an entire APL for this (thank god), this uses GNU APL under the hood. You will need this installed. I wrote the translator itself in C, because APL didn't seem to like unicode strings much.
Why not?
- Many terrible puns
- Names condense into flags to save space
- Arguably more intuitive symbols than normal APL
- There is no good reason to use this
| 🙂APL Emoji | APL Symbol |
|---|---|
| 🇦 | a |
| 🇧 | b |
| 🇨 | c |
| 🇩 | d |
| 🇪 | e |
| 🇫 | f |
| 🇬 | g |
| 🇭 | h |
| 🇮 | i |
| 🇯 | j |
| 🇰 | k |
| 🇱 | l |
| 🇲 | m |
| 🇳 | n |
| 🇴 | o |
| 🇵 | p |
| 🇶 | q |
| 🇷 | r |
| 🇸 | s |
| 🇹 | t |
| 🇺 | u |
| 🇻 | v |
| 🇼 | w |
| 🇽 | x |
| 🇾 | y |
| 🇿 | z |
| ⓿ | 0 |
| ➊ | 1 |
| ➋ | 2 |
| ➌ | 3 |
| ➍ | 4 |
| ➎ | 5 |
| ➏ | 6 |
| ➐ | 7 |
| ➑ | 8 |
| ➒ | 9 |
| 🗨️ | ⍝ |
| ✍️ | ' |
| 🧮 | + |
| 🥖 | - |
| ⚔️ | × |
| 🪓 | ÷ |
| 📈 | ⌈ |
| 📉 | ⌊ |
| 🤯 | * |
| 🪵 | ⍟ |
| 🥧 | ○ |
| 📢 | ! |
| 🎲 | ? |
| 📏 | | |
| 🐜 | ∧ |
| 🛶 | ∨ |
| 🕷 | ⍲ |
| ⛵ | ⍱ |
| ⚖️ | = |
| 😠 | ≠ |
| 🤝 | ≡ |
| 😡 | ≢ |
| 🔬 | < |
| 🤏 | ≤ |
| 🦣 | ≥ |
| ⛰️ | > |
| ☝️ | ⌷ |
| 👍 | ↑ |
| 👎 | ↓ |
| 📐 | ⍴ |
| 🪺 | ⊂ |
| ⛏️ | ⊃ |
| ⬅️ | ⊣ |
| ➡️ | ⊢ |
| 🦄 | ∪ |
| 🙏 | ∩ |
| 🙅 | ~ |
| 📚 | ⍳ |
| 👀 | ⍸ |
| 📜 | ∊ |
| 🔎 | ⍷ |
| 🤰 | / |
| 🌿 | \ |
| 🧬 | ⌿ |
| 🌱 | ⍀ |
| 🙃 | ⌽ |
| 🤣 | ⊖ |
| 😍 | , |
| ❤️ | ⍪ |
| 🎶 | ⍉ |
| 🔢 | ⊥ |
| 🔡 | ⊤ |
| 🐇 | ⌹ |
| 🏷 | ⍎ |
| 💾 | ⍕ |
| 🧗 | ⍋ |
| ⛷ | ⍒ |
| 🍑 | ¨ |
| 😵 | ⍨ |
| 🚀 | ⌶ |
| 🔑 | ⌸ |
| 🐣 | & |
| 👉 | [ |
| 👈 | ] |
| 🤐 | ∘ |
| 😬 | ⍣ |
| 🔧 | ⍠ |
| ✏️ | ⌺ |
| 😱 | ⍤ |
| 🌍 | @ |
| 🔴 | . |
| 🏁 | → |
| 🚧 | ⋄ |
| 💂 | : |
| 🌜 | { |
| 🌛 | } |
| 🤔 | ⍵ |
| 🥺 | ⍺ |
| 😶 | ⍬ |
| 😳 | ∇ |
| 🌳 | # |
| 🪧 | ← |
| 🎮 | ⎕ |
| ⌨️ | ⍞ |
| 🥶 | ¯ |
| 🤱 | ( |
| 🎅 | ) |
The parens are parents.
I don't know.
Yes, but Emojicode is a traditional programming language, not an APL - where's the fun in that?
Make sure you have a C compiler and GNU APL, then run make and then sudo make install. The command to invoke the repl is 🙂apl and you can pipe output to the repl such as cat life.🙂apl | 🙂apl.