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

I don’t either)))))))))

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

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.

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