Decades ago, I read an article in Byte magazine discussing various implementations of GoL. The article ended with an implementation in one line of APL. What are the chances you (or anyone) still has that article, and that one line program?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1041500
People have done similar things in all kinds of languages by now: https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/3434/shortest-game-of-lifeIn case somebody is curious to see how it might look like.
life←{⊃1 ⍵ ∨ .∧ 3 4=+/,¯1 0 1∘.⊖¯1 0 1∘.⌽⊂⍵}