Re:Configuration files suck. Just use a programming language
by todd8 on Sunday July 27, 2014 @07:22PM
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Yes, here's a great list of turing completeness where you might not expect it (even Minecraft): http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/articles/accidentally_turing_complet...
It also invites hideous hackery at the wrong level of the system. It turns trying to read a mere system config into trying to read source code. You will write some hideous spaghetti code in the accidental language. And then your future self will curse you.
See: Rule of Least Power https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_least_power
There is no way the proposal in this blog post is a good idea.