Turing tarpit

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Definition of Turing tarpit in English English dictionary

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.

Related Terms

Turing tarpits

plural form of Turing tarpit

Hyphenation

turing tarpit

Etymology

() Coined by Alan Perlis (1922-1990), computer scientist, from the name of Alan Turing (1912-1954), who described a basis for all possible computational algorithms, and tarpit.