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I will never understand how XML came into being when lisp already existed.
I don't either)))))))))
(reminds (it (of (story me))))
https://xkcd.com/297/
Would you really rather see
<\Foo>than)?There's a reason why most popular languages use
}rather thanend iforfi. The added verbosity doesn't actually help people read your code more than e.g. indentation or editors with paren matching or rainbow parens.