what the fuck is so good about SGML

hurr le XML is le bad but le SGML is awesome!!!!!!!11!!

What's sooooo good about it?

the only person who thought that XML is bad but SGML is good was Naggum

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What's the alternative? Fucking sexp?

and also JSON, YAML, CSV, INI (depending on the particular use case)

It's way more readable than ((()())(())()())(((((((())))()()())()()))))))))()())) everywhere.

I don't see how parens are worse than angle brackets. the biggest disadvantage of XML is not the choice of delimitation symbols, it's the verbosity. do you really prefer

<xml schema:http://kihnjkdhnuisahssm.nm.s version=-3.137>
<hax>
<anus owner="me" />
</hax>
</xml>

over

(hax
(anus :my))