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Jtsummers 4 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: What does it mean to be a programming language, an...

Yes. ini files are simple programming languages. The application that processes it is acting as the interpreter, its behavior changes based on what's described in the ini file.

01HNNWZ0MV43FF 4 months ago [–]

So in this view one really does "program" a thermostat

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