Meaning of Turing tarpit | Babel Free

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

Examples

“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.”

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

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