@retina Nightmarishly evil is what that is.

I had an architect once propose that he should make a DSL that could be stored in a database and interpreted at runtime to compute various revenue splits.

Lena: "Couldn't you just create an interface and load an assembly if you need it to be pluggable?"

A: "The customer wants non-devs to be able to update it."

L: "Non-devs can update it?"

A: "They'll figure it out by looking at it."

L: "Have you heard of the Inner Platform Effect?"

A: Silence.