If GML was an infant, SGML is the bright youngster who far exceeds expectations and made its parents too proud, but XML is the drug-addicted gang member who had committed his first murder before he had sex, which was rape.

Re: S-exp vs XML, HTML, LaTeX (was: Why lisp is growing) (Usenet article).

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