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Contrarian answer: Conway's Game of Life in Dyalog APL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9xAKttWgP4

It feels like the logical end state of "clever" code, for better or for worse. Or, alternatively, what happens when a standard library is gigantic but each keyword is 1-2 characters.

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I also came here to mention this video. Watching the solution emerge line-by-line is a profound experience, and highly revelatory towards the kind of iterative problem-solving workflow possible in the Iversonian languages.

In the same vein, John Scholes' collection of APL code in the Dfns workspace[0] is positively wonderful to read through. I think it's probably one of the finest repositories of annotated code ever assembled.

[0]: http://dfns.dyalog.com/

my favorite of his videos is the sudoku solver: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmT80OseAGs

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