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rickmode on Sept 11, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Java's Cover (April 2001)

XML is not Turing complete, nor are most configuration file formats. Yet these are used to provide significant behavior. They are are programs. Programs are data. Data are programs.

wtetzner on Sept 11, 2012 [–]

> XML is not Turing complete

No, but it's also not a programming language. Of course, there are languages that use XML as their syntax, and many of these are Truing complete.

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