Re: proplib and the jet age

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Subject: Re: proplib and the jet age
From: David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost>
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2013 23:33:59 +0000

On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 08:44:06PM +0100, Jan Danielsson wrote:
 >    I somewhat recently migrated one of my own projects to use lua
 > scripts as configuration files rather than a custom "key=value"-pair
 > type configuration.
 > [...]

Obviously you do what you need to do (for whatever reasons)... but do
keep in mind that in general, using Turing-complete languages for
configuration is a bad thing.

-- 
David A. Holland
dholland%netbsd.org@localhost

Follow-Ups:
- Re: proplib and the jet age
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- Re: proplib and the jet age
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- Lua as a config-file language [was Re: proplib and the jet age]
  - From: Mouse
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  - From: Christos Zoulas

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