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Guido van Rossum: Python

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Is That the Magic of Programming?

Even though the underlying rules are simple, there's an emergent complexity. When you step back and you print out the following, generation after generation, that stuff that you may have not predicted would happen is happening. Andt i think maybe there was a follow up article where there were patterns that that were like gliders, patterns that repeated themselves after a number of generations. But i translated one or two positions to the right, or or something like that. Whell, you can, you can gogle conways game of life, t still, people still go on over it for a reason,. because it's not really well understood why.

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