From ece3849c9df1acc48a40c9d3d2e627fb9f33a8e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joey Hess Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2018 16:32:17 -0400 Subject: response --- .../comment_1_0ba5dff744eeba857ab7fadfad883b13._comment | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/forum/Separation_of_data_and_code/comment_1_0ba5dff744eeba857ab7fadfad883b13._comment (limited to 'doc/forum/Separation_of_data_and_code/comment_1_0ba5dff744eeba857ab7fadfad883b13._comment') diff --git a/doc/forum/Separation_of_data_and_code/comment_1_0ba5dff744eeba857ab7fadfad883b13._comment b/doc/forum/Separation_of_data_and_code/comment_1_0ba5dff744eeba857ab7fadfad883b13._comment new file mode 100644 index 00000000..ae50a008 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/Separation_of_data_and_code/comment_1_0ba5dff744eeba857ab7fadfad883b13._comment @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="joey" + subject="""comment 1""" + date="2018-07-06T20:19:27Z" + content=""" +I was going to write something asserting that it's entirely data, +and not code, though typed data expressed in a programming language. + +However, I think it's better to say that this code/data distinction is +much less a useful distinction that commonly thought, one that things, +especially in the configuration management space often chafe under (see +all the turing complete ill-specified languages built on top of what +started out as some pure data format that are in use by almost every other +configuration management tool), and that Propellor is an attempt to +move in a more useful and less ridigly defined direction. +"""]] -- cgit v1.2.3