[dkarapetyan]

It layers a custom DSL on top of a perfectly adequate language, uses standard terms like classes in non-standard ways, takes away the linear top/down flow that most programmers are used to, forces sequencing through notification chains, steamrolls over error messages willy-nilly, etc. Although I'm a bit biased so a few more data points would be helpful.

[ferventcoder]

And the linear top/down flow, also known as manifest ordering, is now available with Puppet. See http://puppetlabs.com/blog/introducing-manifest-ordered-reso...