On Sunday, March 10, 2002, at 08:04 PM, Alex Perry wrote:

> Another sneaky bonus of XML over LISP is in the bracketing.  Instead of
> having fifteen close parentheses stacked up at the end of the function,
> you get to say </a></b></c></d></e></f> etc.  While this is a pain in the
> butt to type, at least the compiler has a chance of noticing any mistakes.

Which brings to light the old joke about what LISP stand for:  Lots of 
Idiotic Stupid Parenthesis

I also never got far enough to find out how to comment a LISP program.


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