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Yes, I program in HTML (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I will never understand how XML came into being when lisp already existed.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I don't either)))))))))

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

(reminds (it (of (story me))))

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

https://xkcd.com/297/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Would you really rather see <\Foo> than )?

There's a reason why most popular languages use } rather than end if or fi. The added verbosity doesn't actually help people read your code more than e.g. indentation or editors with paren matching or rainbow parens.