Turing tarpit

名词 n.

英文释义

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

词形变化

Turing tarpits plural Turing Tarpit alternative

词源

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.
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