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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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

[–] alokir 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[–] Pipoca 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.