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		yjftsjthsd-h on Oct 21, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Project Wisdom for Red Hat Ansible 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.

omniglottal on Oct 21, 2022 [–]

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

yjftsjthsd-h on Oct 21, 2022 | [–]

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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