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AI's take on XML (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by renzev@lemmy.world to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

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[–] frezik@midwest.social 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

IIRC, the original reason was to avoid people making custom parsing directives using comments. Then people did shit like "foo": "[!-- number=5 --]" instead.

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[–] CodexArcanum@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

I've written Go code; they were right to fear.

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