On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Gunther Birznieks wrote:
> >something just makes my stomach turn, tho, wrt using
> >code-based config files. they are higher-level artifacts
> >than code and should be expressed in a higher level
> >language. it's my belief that this makes it easier for
> >non- or little-coding admins to configure and integrate. but
> >of course i can't prove this. and maybe it's the group's
> >concensus that this type of user is not our target.
>
> Perl is a scripting language and is perfect for representing scriptable
> configs instead of static XML documents. It's way more flexible.
And way more dangerous.
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