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Re:No YAML by reegnz on Thursday October 28, 2021 @11:10AM (#29027022)
A language does not need to be considered Turing complete to be considered code.
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Re:No YAML by ChrisLomont on Thursday October 28, 2021 @07:33PM (#29033422)
It needs to perform some computation, right?

Or is code now any structured data read by a program?

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Re:No YAML by olodus on Friday October 29, 2021 @03:56PM (#29042863)
A python script could be a text doc if you open it in a markdown editor. A yaml file could execute web call if run through a program with a parser.

It is all up to the interpreter you give the code too. Your program that takes yaml config is an interpreter, though probably a very limited one and hopefully a safe one (though that needs to be tested / checked for to be more sure of)

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Re:No YAML by eyelidlessness on Friday October 29, 2021 @12:11AM (#29035092)
Now? XML has been code for decades.
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