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Glad I'm not the only one who had this reaction. I just can't bring myself to accept that a problem that could be solved with a slightly better version of JSON or property lists requires this many buzzwords.

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Those aren't "buzzwords" though, it's a very specific way to implement programming languages. It's not really meaningful except for the PL implementation nerds.

Especially the Futamura projections. It's almost magic and very few people have even heard of them.

Very few people have heard of them. That is exactly the reason why I mention them as often as I can. They are a great entry into the world of meta compilers.

If Futamurma means what I think it means skimming across the Wikipedia entry, it would mean that simple value-holder-file configurations would be parsed and checked at the speed of a general purpose tokenizer. But without closing the door to what the language can express in more elaborate configuration file "landscapes". Best of both worlds and presumably all without requiring anybody but the toolmakers to understand what the buzzwords really mean.

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