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SlowLang
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SlowLang (also TortoiseLang) is a joke language created by Sebin Mathew and Abin Zachariah Abraham, students at the College of Engineering Chengannur, Kerala, India. It won first place at the TinkerHub Useless Projects 2.0 hackathon.
SlowLang is a Python-like language distributed with a Tkinter IDE and a browser demo. Its defining feature is enforced slowness: the IDE measures typing speed and punishes fast typing with sarcastic errors, an angry ASCII turtle, and haiku-formatted complaints. A "lazy mode" randomly refuses to execute programs. The desktop implementation and the browser demo share the same state machine so behaviour is identical in both.