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G'day,
I removed the stub tag {{compu-prog-stub}} because this article seemed quite sufficient and informative for such a specific topic. I'm a layperson (a pharmacist -- no mathematician!) and I think it's important to remember that all of Wikipedia should be accessible to the layperson. If there's more important info then please add it (editors) but this seems complete as is. ben 17:51, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
Why is Haskell included in "see also" If there is some reason for it to be here it should be specified in the article. Haskell neither strikes me as a Turing Tarpit nor the opposite. 174.7.99.85 ( talk) 03:22, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
This doesn't seem desirable. A Turing tarpit is only one type of esoteric language, and shouldn't be shoehorned into the general article. - R. S. Shaw 03:50, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
Move the article or change the lead. Bye, Shinobu 06:05, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
How do we know that this is what the epigram means?? How do we know it's popular enough to warrant mention in a general encyclopaedia? Can we find actual uses of the term?
I keep returning to this article in the hope of finding answers to these questions, but they're not here. I think it's best to supply them or make this article a reference to the epigrams article (if that should be in here). Rp ( talk) 15:41, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
Perlis was famous for many “sayings”. He talked about “one man’s constant is another’s variable,” he coined the term “Turing Tar-pit”. The latter referred, of course, to the fact that just about anything interesting that one wanted to do with computers was undecidable.
I would like to propose the PHP framework Symfony as a great example of a Turing tarpit. How do I go about creating a case for this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.237.62.254 ( talk) 16:06, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
It would be nice to see that link somewhere useful. 96.236.201.154 ( talk) 02:33, 14 May 2015 (UTC)
I'm in trouble translating this article to Japanese Wikipedia.
I first saw this topic at Japanese Wikipedia, translated as "Turing's quagmire". I doubted why "quagmire" and checked English one. So I want reliable references explaining why Alan Perlis select "- tarpit", not "flaw" nor "trap" nor "quagmire" nor so on.
What I believe currently is he selected "- tarpit" as a rhyme of "- complete" and gave it a double meaning. So I think if we can't keep the rhyme at translation, we should unveil this double meaning to "tarpit of Turing completeness" or such.
By the way, In Japanese, the difference of pronunciation between translated "tarpit" and "complete" is so large that the literal translation breaks this rhyme completely. But, instead "tarpit", the Japanese translation of "pitfall" has near pronunciation of "complete". I believe if Alan Perlis were trying to translate this article, he would choose "Turing pitfall" for Japanese to keep the rhyme of "Turing complete". -- Abo Junghichi ( talk) 13:48, 30 May 2019 (UTC)