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by ben509 2558 days ago
> And the rabbit hole goes deep: the XML/HTML syntax is actually able to represent "programs" in a Lisp-like manner.

XML was always a poor man's s-expression.

And for all the sins of SGML, tags lend themselves beautifully to templating because they can represent code as data just as Lisp does.