Against The Use Of Programming Languages in Configuration Files
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Re: Against The Use Of Programming Languages in Configuration Files
#2Reddit also has a discussion going: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/fnorp/against_t...
Re: Against The Use Of Programming Languages in Configuration Files
#3If a configuration language is Turing-incomplete, configuration files written in it can be validated “offline”, ie. without executing the program it configures
This is exactly what I've been advocating recently. Less power is good, if it means you can validate your config files without first solving the halting problem.