Epigram An epigram is a brief, interesting, memorable, and sometimes surprising or satirical statement. The word is derived from the Greek "inscription" from "to write on, to inscribe", and the literary device has been employed for over two mille ...

s on Programming" is an article by Alan Perlis published in 1982, for ACM's

SIGPLAN SIGPLAN is the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on programming languages. Conferences * Principles of Programming Languages (POPL) * Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI) * International Symposium o ...

journal. The epigrams are a series of short, programming-language-neutral, humorous statements about computers and programming, which are widely quoted. It first appeared in ''SIGPLAN Notices'' 17(9), September 1982. In epigram #54, Perlis coined the term " Turing tarpit", which he defined as a programming language where "everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy."

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