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If you're writing Ansible playbooks with YAML then you are using it as a declarative programming language. So YAML can be a programming language.



More like the encoding scheme for the programming language. YAML isn't a language, ansible is; it's like how unicode isn't a programming language.


YAML: Yet Another Meta-Language. It's not a what now?


It's not a programming language. (Rather like HTML.) It's a markup language that can be used as the encoding for a real programming language, but it's not a programming language itself.




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