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Yes! Exceedingly simple semantics combining to form a difficult-to-use language is often called a "Turing Tar Pit," a place where everything is possible but no
by raganwald 13y ago
Yes!
Exceedingly simple semantics combining to form a difficult-to-use language is often called a "Turing Tar Pit," a place where everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy.
Conway's Game of Life is even simpler than the lambda calculus, and people build all sorts of amazing things in it, but examples like a calculator that outputs human-readable digits are circus tricks.
- papsosouid 13y ago>Exceedingly simple semantics combining to form a difficult-to-use language Who was suggesting that we should form difficult to use languages on those simple semantics?
- raganwald 13y agoNobody, I was just introducing the term "Turing Tar Pit" for those who hadn't heard it.