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To: =?UTF-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: Guix Devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>

Hi Ludo,

On Tue, 26 Nov 2019 at 10:52, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:

> That=E2=80=99s not true.  In some cases, people write something that=E2=
=80=99s actually
> code (in YAML, in JSON, etc.) and there=E2=80=99s an interpreter running =
it.
> There=E2=80=99s usually no tooling coming with that interpreter, in parti=
cular
> 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 :-)).  It=E2=80=99s just that it=E2=80=99s not presented that way, b=
ut that=E2=80=99s what
> it is.

Out of curiosity, do you have examples about YAML or JSON with an
interpreter running it?


Thank for this interesting discussion. :-)

Cheers,
simon