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Re: Configuration management, revision 3



Craig Brozefsky wrote:
> The shell is not really as expressive a data representation language
> as the specialized scheme like language.  Forget for a moment that it
> has parenthesis, it doesn't really matter what the syntax is at this
> moment. 

It already has if statements. Richard said he wanted to add some stuff to
make it more complex. At some point it stops becoming a representation and
becomes a turing-complete language and then you're no better off than you
were before.

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