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seance: an offline seance with the ghost of ALGOL 60

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the week 4 prompt said "ghost in the machine" and the challenge page itself suggested an offline seance chatbot that channels a long-dead programming language. i liked that idea enough to build it: a seance with the ghost of ALGOL 60, the language that gave us block structure, BNF, and call-by-name…

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  1. 2026-10-27 04:24 · DEV Community — AI
    seance: an offline seance with the ghost of ALGOL 60

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