We need less powerful languages (lukeplant.me.uk)
recommended by 2 users | 2015 | 287 points by ingve | language design | original thread |
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Too Nov 15, 2015 | on: Turing Tarpit | context

There was an interesting submission about your qustion earlier today, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10567408 There the author is arguing that simpler is better, I guess the discussion there eventually spawned the submission of this one.

rrauenza Jan 12, 2016 | on: Ansible 2.0 released | context

This was posted on hacker news sometime ago,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10567408 -> http://lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/less-powerful-languages/

I think it is relevant to this discussion. Having used Puppet before ansible, I tend to agree with it.

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