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AnimalMuppet 4 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: XML is a cheap DSL

Or Lisp.

"Looks good" might be something not everyone agrees on for Lisp, but once you've seen S-expressions, XML looks terrible. Disgustingly verbose and heavyweight.

kgwxd 4 months ago [–]

And once you seen edn, everything looks terrible. both data formats and language syntaxes.

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