ChatGPT created a very good answer to this: https://chatgpt.com/share/67194dd4-de68-800f-89c4-cd405b12c5f6
It covers my usual points that DFDL is not Turing complete (so no, not a programming language - not powerful enough), and also that it's a complicated way to make computers do stuff. (This is the same view that says HTML is a programming language.) On Wed, Oct 23, 2024 at 1:53 PM Roger L Costello <coste...@mitre.org> wrote: > Hi Folks, > > Consider a Windows EXE file. The file is an executable, right? You "run" > the file and something happens. Of course, you must run it with the proper > application, otherwise nothing happens. > > Consider a DFDL schema. When you give it to the proper application--such > as Daffodil--then something happens. If you give it to the wrong > application, nothing happens. > > So a DFDL schema is an executable. Well, perhaps I should not use the word > "executable" as that has a specific meaning, referring to the Microsoft > data format. Instead, let me say that a DFDL schema is a "program" and > Daffodil is an application that runs the program. > > So DFDL is a programming language that we use to write programs (which we > call "DFDL schemas"). Daffodil is an application that runs the programs. > > Do you agree? > > /Roger >
