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Re:The No-Code Generation is arriving by commandlinefan on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @02:23PM (#24910255)
> a giant config file

Which, inevitably, starts to include things like macros, include files, looping constructs and eventually bits of perl or TCL.

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Re:The No-Code Generation is arriving by TeMPOraL on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @08:36PM (#24913680)
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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