XML vs Python?

[Skip Montanaro]

    Tim> If you want to see something truly bletcherous, have a gander at
    Tim> those who try to write programs in XML.  <<shudder>> Check out:

    Tim>   http://www.waterlang.org/doc/tutorial_fast_intro.html

Sort of looks like somebody dreamt it up as a joke, but then somewhere along
the way the smiley got lost and somebody else took it seriously.  Kind of
like <blink> taken to an absurb extreme.

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