> And the rabbit hole goes deep: the XML/HTML syntax is actually able to represent "programs" in a Lisp-like manner. XML was always a poor man's s-expression.

> And the rabbit hole goes deep: the XML/HTML syntax is actually able to represent "programs" in a Lisp-like manner. XML was always a poor man's s-expression. And for all the sins of SGML, tags lend themselves beautifully to templating because they can represent code as data just as Lisp does.