[Houshalter]

The problem is there is a tendency for configuration languages to become Turing complete as they add more and more features. It would be preferable if they just started with something Turing complete. See here:

>Most projects seem to start out small with a few config items like where to write logs, where to look for data, user names and passwords, etc. But then they start to grow: features start to be able to be turned on or off, the timings and order of operations start to be controlled, and, inevitably, someone wants to start adding logic to it (e.g. use 10 if the machine is X and 15 if the machine is Y). At a certain point the config file becomes a domain specific language, and a poorly written one at that.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/648246/at-what-point-doe...

I like the idea of using Lua as a config language because it's pretty simple, lightweight, and can be sandboxed easily.