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Turing tarpit

Noun

Meaning

Turing tarpit (plural Turing tarpits)

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

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Esoteric programming terms Turing tarpit main A Turing tarpit is a Turing-complete programming language in which any computable function could theoretically be written, but in which it is impractically difficult to do so. Source: Internet

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