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		ks2048 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Levels of configuration languages I'm not sure "total" vs "turing-complete" should be a huge difference - just terminate with an error after X seconds. For example, can "total programming languages" include: "for i in range(10000000000000): do_something()"? If so, your config file can still hang - even though it provably terminates.

lmm 9 months ago [–]

It's a lot easier to accidentally make a file that takes forever than to accidentally make a file that takes a long but finite amount of time.

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