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Re:Shifting Gears by cfontes on Monday September 03, 2018 @03:53PM (#17904537)
Valid point.

Don't fly you end up creating a turing-complete config file as well? I remember it being stored as some kind of Yaml like syntax.

Re:Shifting Gears by jacques_chester on Monday September 03, 2018 @04:39PM (#17904757)
Fly does substitutions, but that's it: no loops, no if-thens. It's almost certain that something can be tickled into being Turing-complete; it's actually devilishly difficult to avoid doing it by accident. My hunch is pipelines are Turing complete, but I haven't gotten around to proving it.

But there's a difference between trying not to introduce it and going out of your way to build a programming language in YAML. An actual, honest-to-god programmable YAML.