From: Martin <smartin@disroot.org>
To: raingloom <raingloom@riseup.net>,
"guix-devel@gnu.org" <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: A Critique of Shepherd Design
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2021 17:50:09 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1dd3ae97-3348-7948-d22a-f83bbc9e0c43@disroot.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210322144210.1aa813e0@riseup.net>
> On Fri, 19 Mar 2021 17:33:57 +0000
> raid5atemyhomework <raid5atemyhomework@protonmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The Shepherd language for describing actions on Shepherd daemons is a
>> Turing-complete Guile language. Turing completeness runs afoul of
>> the Principle of Least Power.
> Erlang is turing complete and yet it is famously excellent at managing
> services in a robust way.
>
Ironically nowadays almost everything is Turing complete:
https://www.gwern.net/Turing-complete
Lack of Turing-completeness by design can be a real feature, i.e.
bitcoin script is a perfect practical example of it.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-22 19:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-19 17:33 A Critique of Shepherd Design raid5atemyhomework
2021-03-19 21:49 ` Maxime Devos
2021-03-20 2:42 ` raid5atemyhomework
2021-03-20 4:02 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2021-03-20 5:07 ` Mark H Weaver
2021-03-20 11:10 ` raid5atemyhomework
2021-03-20 16:58 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-03-21 0:22 ` raid5atemyhomework
2021-03-22 17:02 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-03-24 14:29 ` raid5atemyhomework
2021-03-24 14:48 ` raid5atemyhomework
2021-03-22 13:42 ` raingloom
2021-03-22 17:50 ` Martin [this message]
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