On 11/20/2012 01:39 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
" Interpreters do not preclude simple data: they just scale better, from simple linear declarative data to complex, Turing-cranking swamp. The problem is that, this design makes complex things possible but it doesn't do enough to keep simple things easy.
It can be made simple, if you look at it the right way. One wouldn't start with a generic interpreter, but rather evaluate the config script in a domain-specific context. For instance we can define domain-specific commands: the following could then be a valid script in Python, Perl, shell, TCL, etc:
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