turing tarpits

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Turing tarpit
The situation in which a programming language is only minimally Turing complete, so that "everything is possible but nothing is easy"

Without more abstract notions of what constitutes important aspects of a programming language, one is seriously in danger of falling into the Turing Tarpit.