Encountered the Turing tar pit?

Yes   8 votes - 88 %
No   1 vote - 11 %
 
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WIPO: My first solution to every problem by DesiredUsername (4.00 / 2) #1 Thu Jul 06, 2006 at 07:19:13 AM EST
If you aren't writing a generalized programming environment to allow users to script solutions to their own problems (e.g. adding a column of numbers) then what was the use of that college degree?

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Oh yes by ucblockhead (2.00 / 0) #2 Thu Jul 06, 2006 at 01:06:11 PM EST
My own personal karmic hell came after a project where I created such a tarpit. We created an extremely generalized solution and though we completed the project, by the end we realized that the bulk of the generalized code was not worth it.

The hell came when after starting another project where the decision was made to do things in a more simple and straightforward matter we were forced to use someone else's overly generalized toolkit.
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Just like a programming language, by ambrosen (2.00 / 0) #3 Thu Jul 06, 2006 at 02:28:57 PM EST
without any of the consistency that makes them work.

I know the feeling, too.

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Closer to the mark than you realize by ucblockhead (4.00 / 1) #4 Thu Jul 06, 2006 at 02:31:41 PM EST
At one point in the project, a coworker said "Hey, you realize that if we just add $Feature, it'll be Turing complete?"
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Well, yes, by ambrosen (2.00 / 0) #5 Thu Jul 06, 2006 at 02:51:27 PM EST
that was the situation I was in, too.

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I'm involved in one by snugglebunny (2.00 / 0) #6 Thu Jul 06, 2006 at 07:05:47 PM EST
We appear to be paying for a program that is working it's way to that state. Everytime I raise a defect they reply with "it's a configuration issue".

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