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==Layer 01==

==Layer 01==

A teacher is seen copying some C code onto the chalkboard in [[Layer 01]] just before Lain's fingertips begin to emit ectoplasm. It features a yen symbol instead of a backslash in an escape sequence. The teacher probably forgot something after the second percent symbol. Part of the code is not visible because the teacher is standing in the way. It reads as follows:

A teacher is seen copying some C code onto the chalkboard in [[Layer 01]] just before Lain's fingertips begin to emit [[Paranormal occurrences|ectoplasm]]. It features a yen symbol instead of a backslash in an escape sequence. The teacher probably forgot something after the second percent symbol. Part of the code is not visible because the teacher is standing in the way. It reads as follows:

  a='A'; b='B';

  a='A'; b='B';

  x=321; y=123;

  x=321; y=123;

==Layer 07==

==Layer 07==

[[File:Life.jpg|300px|thumb|right|CRowView.CL]]

[[File:Life.jpg|300px|thumb|CRowView.CL]]

[[File:Walker.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Afx-n-nPrv-View.CL]]

[[File:Walker.jpg|300px|thumb|Afx-n-nPrv-View.CL]]

 

In [[Layer 07]], there is a scene where Lain is in class, surreptitiously working on her [[HandiNAVI]] instead of paying attention. For a few seconds, her NAVI screen is visible, and we can see her rapidly scroll through two files of Common Lisp source code, named CRowView.CL and Afx-n-nPrv-View.CL.

In [[Layer 07]], there is a scene where Lain is in class, surreptitiously working on her [[HandiNAVI]] instead of paying attention. For a few seconds, her NAVI screen is visible, and we can see her rapidly scroll through two files of Common Lisp source code, named CRowView.CL and Afx-n-nPrv-View.CL.

Afx-n-nPrv-View.CL is the source for a code walker. This was probably included for its tongue-in-cheek reference to [[Apple Inc. references | Apple]] in a section of code that is commented out. The full file can be found [http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/lang/lisp/code/codewalk/walk/new_walk.cl here.]

 

 

 

Afx-n-nPrv-View.CL is the source for a code walker.[http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/lang/lisp/code/codewalk/walk/new_walk.cl] This was probably included for its tongue-in-cheek reference to [[Apple Inc. references | Apple]] in a section of code that is commented out.  

Some more tenuous, coincidental links between CGoL and Lain include the fact that the recently established [http://www.catb.org/hacker-emblem/ Hacker Emblem] was inspired by the Game of Life, and Lain can be described as a hacker; and that CGoL also inspired the [[Wikipedia:Poietic Generator|Poietic Generator]] while Lain [[Give some examples of cybernetic systems at play in specific visual texts. What metaphors of the body in contemporary society do they suggest? And to what commodity end are they marketed?|has been described as an autopoietic entity]].

*[[Typography]]

*[[Wikipedia:Conway's Game Of Life|Wikipedia page on Life.]]

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