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		wtbob on March 10, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ansible vs. Chef (2015) > If you're using yaml and templates then you've already lost. Probably true. > The only tool in this game that is not braindead is chef. What's wrong with s-expressions? Code and data at the same time.

davexunit on March 10, 2016 [–]

>What's wrong with s-expressions? Code and data at the same time.

Sure, but you need something that will actually evaluate that sexp. May I suggest GNU Guix to fill that role?

http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/

wtbob on March 12, 2016 | [–]

I really like Guix's ideas, but I think that project made a very unwise choice when it picked Scheme rather than Common Lisp.

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