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by jzd 3804 days ago
That does not make it Turing complete.

"You need some form of dynamic allocation construct (malloc ornew or cons will do) and either recursive functions or some other way of writing an infinite loop. If you have those and can do anything at all interesting, you're almost certainly Turing-complete." -- http://stackoverflow.com/a/449170

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There is a do-until loop: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/playbooks_loops.html#id22

Which satisfies the infinite loop issue.

Have not looked carefully at the dynamic allocation, but I am guessing (hand waving here....) that it could be accomplished.