life

1. <simulation> Conway's Game of Life.

2. <jargon> The opposite of Usenet/the Internet/video games/whatever the speaker considers a waste of time. As in "Get a life!"

3. <language> Logic of Inheritance, Functions and Equations (LIFE) An object-oriented, functional, constraint-based language by Hassan Ait-Kacy <hak@prl.dec.com> et al of MCC, Austin TX, 1987. LIFE integrates ideas from LOGIN and LeFun.

See also Wild_LIFE.

["Is There a Meaning to LIFE?", H. Ait-Kacy et al, Intl Conf on Logic Prog, 1991].