[jmnicolas]

From the comments (Tristan Colgate) :

"XML is what you do to a sysadmin if waterboarding him would get you fired."

Made my day :-)

[Ygg2]

That's just mean. Waterboarding isn't that bad...

[jmnicolas]

But it gets you fired ... on the other end, nobody has ever been fired for using XML.

[nzp]

With my occasional sysadmin hat on, until a few weeks ago I had the luck to never have had to deal with XML configuration files. Then came Solr and now I know what horror is. (To be clear, Solr itself is great, but those god damn config files...)