People become just furious at the existence (especially when they never write xml by hand) of closing tags. Because the XML people wanted to be able to spot unc

People become just furious at the existence (especially when they never write xml by hand) of closing tags. Because the XML people wanted to be able to spot unclosed elements before they reached EOF and because they thought it would be nice to be able to report what was actually unclosed we're going to have to just accept a world in which programmers will use absolutely anything before using xml. see also: hating pascal's 'end' instead of '}' or claims that python is readable because it doesn't even have '}'