Talk:Cellular automaton

Do cellular automata really count as esolangs?

For example, is CGoL really an esolang? There’s not really any “output”, unless you consider the next generation to be. Hotcrystal0 (talk) 15:38, 1 April 2025 (UTC)

Yes, it is a language. Honestly, the bigger contention would be that it's not esoteric, since there's an article in English Wikipedia about wikipedia:Conway's Game of Life. A language is merely a subset of words over some alphabet, and there's no rule which says that the words must be interpreted as one-dimensional objects, nor a rule requiring some notion of output. Corbin (talk) 15:52, 1 April 2025 (UTC)