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Gödel (programming language)

Okay, let's imagine that you love puzzles, and you always make up your own rules to solve them. Gödel (pronounced "gur-dell") is like a language that allows you to make up your own rules for solving puzzles or problems in a computer.

But Gödel is not like any other language you might use to talk to your friends or write a story. It's a language that a computer can understand, so you have to be very precise in the rules you make up. It's kind of like coming up with a secret code that only you and the computer can understand.

Now, the secret code part of Gödel is based on a man named Kurt Gödel who was a really smart mathematician. He found out that there are some things in math that can't be proven or explained with traditional methods. It's kind of like saying that some puzzles can't be solved with the usual rules. Gödel's discovery helped us understand more about how computers can think and solve problems.

So, when people use Gödel to solve problems, they're basically creating a new set of rules or logic, based on the principles that Gödel helped discover. It's like making your own set of puzzle-solving rules that the computer can understand.

It's pretty neat, huh?