turing tarpit

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Definition von turing tarpit im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch

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

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

Relevante Übersetzungen

Turing tarpits

plural form of Turing tarpit

Etymologie

() 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.