Rustom Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com>: >> > All I can say is that I've encountered numerous bad cases of rule >> > systems, eg: >> > >> > - iptables >> > >> > - selinux policies >> > >> > - systemd unit files >> > >> > - asterisk >> > >> > - sendmail > [...] > Some other examples: > 1. > Aren’t makefiles data-driven?
Yes, "make" should be added to my sin list. > [Personally Ive always believed that jam is better than make and is > less used for entirely historical reasons; something like half the > world eoling with crlf and half with lf. But maybe make is really a > better design because more imperative?] Don't know jam, but can heartily recommend SCons. > 3. Scheme — the language but also the informal culture around SICP — > is where data-driven programming got installed as a sacred dictum. > Scheme doesn't seem to be doing too well of late… Coincidence?? Lisp's "data is code and code is data" is a good principle. I have successfully used it with Python as well. However, Scheme's syntax-rules are infamous. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
