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Séance: I Summoned the Ghosts of COBOL, FORTRAN and ALGOL — and They Live in My Browser

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 4: Ghost in the Machine What I Built Every language you write today is haunted. Your curly-brace block scope? That's ALGOL 60's ghost. Your for loop over an array? FORTRAN got there in 1957. Your "everything is an object"? Sma…

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  1. 2026-10-31 16:46 · DEV Community — AI
    Séance: I Summoned the Ghosts of COBOL, FORTRAN and ALGOL — and They Live in My Browser

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