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I prefer the nginx config style over apache2. Why the hell would anyone need a turing complete configuration file syntax?

• barrkel 17y ago
  Turing completeness is a red herring and not an argument against using a language. Turing completeness is usually practically useful only to prove that certain analyses are impossible. As to why, sometimes you want the flexibility of inferring settings from third-party data sources, or implicitly from the layout of the directory structure, or naming conventions, or any other thing you choose to mention. IMO the power of a programmable configuration language is that the configuration need not actually be written in the language, but stored somewhere else, and just retrieved using the language.