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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. +"""]] |