English

Alternative forms

• Turing Tarpit

Noun

Turing tarpit ‎(plural Turing tarpits)

1. (computing) The situation in which a programming language is only minimally Turing complete, so that "everything is possible but nothing is easy".
   • 1985, Jean-Paul Tremblay, Paul G Sorenson, The Theory and Practice of Compiler Writing

     The basic reason for increasing the size of the language is the so-called Turing tarpit: if the language is too simple, one may be able to do anything in it.

   • 1994, Jørgen Lindskov Knudsen, Object-oriented Environments: The Mjolner Approach

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