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Le 2 d=C3=A9cembre 2019 20:05:57 GMT+01:00, zimoun <zimon=2Etoutoune@gmail=
=2Ecom> a =C3=A9crit :
>Hi Ludo,
>
>On Tue, 26 Nov 2019 at 10:52, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s <ludo@gnu=2Eorg> wrote=
:
>
>> That=E2=80=99s not true=2E  In some cases, people write something that=
=E2=80=99s
>actually
>> code (in YAML, in JSON, etc=2E) and there=E2=80=99s an interpreter runn=
ing it=2E
>> There=E2=80=99s usually no tooling coming with that interpreter, in
>particular
>> no debugger, error reporting may not be optimal either, and the
>> semantics may be ill-defined (I=E2=80=99m getting close to Greenspun=E2=
=80=99s tenth
>> rule :-))=2E  It=E2=80=99s just that it=E2=80=99s not presented that wa=
y, but that=E2=80=99s
>what
>> it is=2E
>
>Out of curiosity, do you have examples about YAML or JSON with an
>interpreter running it?
>
>
>Thank for this interesting discussion=2E :-)
>
>Cheers,
>simon

Could this discussion be saved in the cookbook for instance? I'd like to h=
ave this kind of discussion on the approach of guix and ideas behind it som=
ewhere more accessible than the ML archive=2E Does it make sense?