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		Cthulhu_ on Sept 11, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Top Programming Languages 2023 JSON and YAML are used as programming languages for e.g. Docker, expressing conditionals, variables, etc. I don't like it :p.

dragonwriter on Sept 13, 2023 [–]

JSON and YAML aren't programming languages. You can build a programming language on top of them, just as Lisp is built on top of S-expressions, but the underlying data representation isn't a programming language alone.

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