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Definition of tarpit in English English dictionary
- A geological occurrence where subterranean bitumen leaks to the surface, creating a lake of asphalt
- Turing tarpit
- 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.