> My second issue is that the files clearly aren't machine-editable. There's no sensible way to make a GUI that can edit your hostname if the hostname is defined in some Turing complete functional program.
I don't disagree with the overall argument you are making however on this point alone, they aren't meant to be machine-editable. They are functions, they take arguments. So you can make your module or system configuration or whatever, have unassigned variables and then have your function take them as parameters. Your GUI can invoke this function with arguments from the user input.
I don't disagree with the overall argument you are making however on this point alone, they aren't meant to be machine-editable. They are functions, they take arguments. So you can make your module or system configuration or whatever, have unassigned variables and then have your function take them as parameters. Your GUI can invoke this function with arguments from the user input.