"Turing tarpit" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1985, Jean-Paul Tremblay, Paul G Sorenson, The Theory and Practice of Compiler Writing:",
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          "ref": "1994, Jørgen Lindskov Knudsen, Object-oriented Environments: The Mjolner Approach:",
          "text": "Without more abstract notions of what constitutes important aspects of a programming language, one is seriously in danger of falling into the Turing Tarpit.",
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        "The situation in which a programming language is only minimally Turing complete, so that \"everything is possible but nothing is easy\"."
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        "(computing) The situation in which a programming language is only minimally Turing complete, so that \"everything is possible but nothing is easy\"."
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