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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Turing tar-pit</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="turbo-nerd.html" title="turbo nerd"/><link rel="next" href="turist.html" title="turist"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Turing tar-pit</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="turbo-nerd.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="turist.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Turing-tar-pit"/><dt xmlns="" id="Turing-tar-pit"><b>Turing tar-pit</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. A place where anything is possible but nothing of interest is
practical. Alan Turing helped lay the foundations of computer science by
showing that all machines and languages capable of expressing a certain
very primitive set of operations are logically equivalent in the kinds of
computations they can carry out, and in principle have capabilities that
differ only in speed from those of the most powerful and elegantly designed
computers. However, no machine or language exactly matching Turing's
primitive set has ever been built (other than possibly as a classroom
exercise), because it would be horribly slow and far too painful to use. A
<span class="firstterm">Turing tar-pit</span> is any computer
language or other tool that shares this property. That is, it's
theoretically universal &#8212; but in practice, the harder you struggle to
get any real work done, the deeper its inadequacies suck you in. Compare
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