[foobiekr]

They were really pretty close. Leaded gas was banned for new model cars in 1985 but didn't stop being used until 1996 - the year of XML! - and asbestos was and is everywhere, the gift that keeps on giving. Popcorn ceiling in a house built in 1980 CA? Probably full of asbestos because grandfathered in. And so on.

Just kind of amazing.

[steveBK123]

But when will be ban XML?

[turtleyacht]

Asbestos--spiky things in the lungs.

XML: lots of sticky typing of tags.

We don't yet know what we have wrought with XML, what insidious harms shall come from squished fingers upon rubber-domed keys.

  Over and over, the tags!
  Opening and closing, the tags!
  Verbose yet incomplete,
  Wayward schemas in attr equals,
  Transforms atop loops and ifs,
  Ending yet starting yet ending <starting
  Maven, web.xml, SOAP--
  Newlines and through lines, blobs in
  SQL row lines <!-- comments too
  Trees never perish,
  Always and ever the roots flourish