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YAML IS NOT AN EFFING PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE, EVEN IN 2020

• com2kid 6y ago
  There are multiple XML based programming languages, so no doubt properly complex YAML configs are Turing complete by now. I mean what do you expect? People cram Turing completeness everywhere and anywhere.
  • ben0x539 6y ago
    If you don't want people to reach for Turing complete config languages, don't make them solve weird problems in config files, imo.
• thetanil 6y ago
  this, so much this
• dang 6y ago
  Please don't use uppercase for emphasis. If you want to emphasize a word or phrase, put asterisks around it and it will get italicized. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
  • tdons 6y ago
    yaml deserves all caps
    • dang 6y ago
      If we take the union of all allcaps-deservers across the set of all users with such feelings, half the site will run through an upcase function. As in any mutually assured destruction scenario, we must all restrain ourselves.
      • trishankkarthik 6y ago
        dang, I was clearly joking...
        • dang 6y ago
          scott_s wrote the canonical comment about that in 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7609289 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7609289 https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=7609289&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
          • trishankkarthik 6y ago
            If you guys can't even take a "bad" joke, gods help you all. Feel free to ban me.