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One idea I started building and never finished was "pseudocode as code".

The idea was to have a compiler for pseudocode used in CS books in place of real code.

There are a few small differences (eg. using = vs :=) but most books and interview-preparing materials use a C-like notation.

Then I started reading papers written by language researchers (which use haskell-like pseudocode) and realised the size of the task at hand.

Probably trying to please only CS students / people doing interviews would still make for a fun hack.



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