yaml vs perl complexity ( was Re: [Catalyst] JSON instead of YAML? )

[Corey]

On Wednesday January 25 2006 11:48 am, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
> * Bill Moseley <moseley at hank.org> [2006-01-25 17:40]:
> >On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 10:41:10AM -0500, Daniel Westermann-Clark wrote:
> >> [10:38:00 dwc at fortuna ~]$ cat refs.yml
> >> ref: &r
> >>   key1: value1
> >>   key2: value2
> >> deref: *r
> >
> >At least it isn't complex like writing perl. ;)
>
> Yeah, look at how simple it is. An end user will certainly have
> fewer problems with that than with Perl.
>


Well I don't see any control/flow structures/logic in YAML, and you can't 
define subroutines or call external modules, etc. etc.

If there were a dialect of perl that did nothing more than set variables, then 
sure.