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Sufficiently advanced XML is indistinguishable from satire

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  • 1
    That's something I think clojure got right, .edn files make that shit much more readable
  • 1
    This isn’t even advanced but pretty normal XML.
  • 9
    I worry that those tag names are associated with a class name somewhere
  • 1
    crying in Roxen
  • 2
    xml is so crap in terms of file size too

    like Jesus please stop
  • 1
    @lorentz I’m sure there’s a bean generic factory factory somewhere.
  • 2
    It's not even closing those innermost tags
  • 1
    I work with legacy software and they overengineered it a lot through the 15 years. I only have 1 and 2 letter tags in most xmls. I don't know what they do but it seems like I don't have to.
  • 3
    @RageExpress they use way too many and you use way too few :)
  • 1
    @RageExpress English words are on average 6 letters. Your tags are probably more specific than that, but if you were a brilliant architect, the XML files were important enough to build your entire nomenclature around them, and your domain lent itself to metaphors, your tag names should be 6 characters on average.
  • 0
    @lorentz yes. clarity is always more important than brevity
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