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I'd never heard of Greenspun's tenth but that's good to know! I had a personal theory that all program configuration interfaces eventually become programming la
by rendaw 6y ago
I'd never heard of Greenspun's tenth but that's good to know! I had a personal theory that all program configuration interfaces eventually become programming languages (poorly) and maybe this fits in there.
- dimitrios1 6y ago> I had a personal theory that all program configuration interfaces eventually become programming languages (poorly) and maybe this fits in there. This is absolutely true. Another recent high profile example I can think of is HCL with terraform.
- akavel 6y agoI actually just stumbled upon an article where someone went through HCL and finally landed at Lua: http://dnaeon.github.io/choosing-lua-as-the-ddl-and-config-language/ http://dnaeon.github.io/choosing-lua-as-the-ddl-and-config-l...