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		DonHopkins 68 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: “Stop Designing Languages. Write Libraries Instead... "Java is a DSL for taking large XML files and converting them to stack traces" "XML is like violence. If it doesn't solve your problem, you're not using enough of it."

moffkalast 68 days ago [–]

XML is like a flyer saying "do violence" maybe, it doesn't do anything by itself.

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