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by cognomano 855 days ago
Tag languages were a success because SGML. Once we past XML tag languages are not loved by many people. JSON, YAML, and a myriad of another languages are being teach and used today. Don’t get me wrong — I loved when the XML 1.0 spec was published but the broken promise that we would never need to write XML by hand was the cause of hate to tag languages. Object Orientation is hated these days by many people. Those are the challenges this kind of projects have ti overcome in order to be successful.