Turing tarpits

A form of Turing tarpit — 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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Turing tarpits1

noun
  1. pluralplural of Turing tarpit

Turing Tarpits2

noun
  1. pluralplural of Turing Tarpit
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