Does anybody (anecdotally or otherwise) know whether programming instructors are using Conway's Game of Life more or less than in the past?  I learned to program Pascal on a mainframe in 1982 in an introductory C.S. course.  I recall coding Conway's Game of Life as central to that experience.  Almost 40 years later I still find great satisfaction in using it to teach Javascript to undergraduates.  But I don't get the impression that it's used all that often by others.  And that it may have been more popular in the past.  What are other people's experiences/impressions?  

Best,

Luke