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Cuneiform (programming language)

Okay kiddo, have you ever seen ancient writing on tablets made of clay? That's called cuneiform! It's a very old way of writing that was used by people in ancient Mesopotamia.

Now, imagine if we could use those same symbols to tell a computer what to do - that's where cuneiform, the programming language, comes in!

Instead of letters and words like we usually use to communicate with computers, cuneiform uses those old cuneiform symbols instead.

So, just like we might write a program in a language like Python or Java, we can write programs in cuneiform using those ancient symbols.

It might seem a little weird to use symbols that are thousands of years old to talk to a modern computer, but it's actually a really cool way to connect with history and bring ancient cultures into the digital age!