Turing tarpit

== English == === Alternative forms === 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. === Noun === 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".