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Please dont take this seriously guys its just a dumb meme I haven't written a single line of code in half of these languages

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[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

XML is great because while most config formats compromise on either being human-readable or machine-readable, XML solves this problem by being utterly incomprehensible to man and machine alike ๐Ÿ˜

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Is xml really that unreadable for machines? I enjoy xml as a format, because I can generally just convert it to an s-expression and easily manipulate it as a tree.