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I agree with most of your comment but

> YAML is not turing complete and is hence not "code".

seems wrong to me. In fact I've heard code/coding to include non-Turing complete languages (e.g. html) as distinct from programs/programming.

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I think SQL is another prime example, being able to solve a problem effectively without resorting to Turing-completeness is preferable to me, as long as that language is simple enough.

Yes agreed, Declarative languages like SQL or Ansible are great for most of the use cases. You can always use extensions to get down to imperative steps.

HTML is a markup language and not a programming language.

IMHO you can only "code" in programming languages (not necesseraly executed by a CPU).

A programming language does not need to be turing complete though to "code" in it. You're just limited to the problems you can solve with a turing-incomplete language.

It's interesting to think if using a problem-declaration language is coding.

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