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Re:Java's Cover (April 2001) by rickmode on Tuesday September 11, 2012 @10:29AM (#4505586)
XML is not Turing complete, nor are most configuration file formats. Yet these are used to provide significant behavior. They are are programs. Programs are data. Data are programs.
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Re:Java's Cover (April 2001) by wtetzner on Tuesday September 11, 2012 @01:26PM (#4506662)
> XML is not Turing complete

No, but it's also not a programming language. Of course, there are languages that use XML as their syntax, and many of these are Truing complete.

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