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		commandlinefan on Oct 27, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The No-Code Generation is arriving > a giant config file Which, inevitably, starts to include things like macros, include files, looping constructs and eventually bits of perl or TCL.

TeMPOraL on Oct 28, 2020 [–]

Or more typically, a half-baked Lisp that uses XML or JSON instead of s-expressions.

Code is data, but the converse of that is that a sufficiently complex configuration file is just a piece of executable code.

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