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Turing tarpit

A Turing Tarpit is a special kind of computer programming language that is designed to be difficult to understand. It is named after Alan Turing, a famous computer scientist who helped to create the first computers in the 1940s. In a Turing Tarpit, many instructions are written in a strange way. This makes it hard for people to understand what the instructions mean, and make the program run the way it should. So, the programming language is tricky and difficult to use, like getting stuck in a tarpit (a type of muddy pit)!
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