I just don't buy that there were enough Lisp devs around for that to be a significant source of the hate. Besides, Json has plenty of those issues and doesn't

I just don't buy that there were enough Lisp devs around for that to be a significant source of the hate. Besides, Json has plenty of those issues and doesn't garner a fraction of the distaste. On the other hand SOAP and the tooling around it, particularly the tooling in the Java world which was a hot tech at that time, sucked - and so far as I could see a lot of devs didn't really draw a distinction between XML and SOAP. Ok, actually SOAP probably didn't suck per se - but it was a wildly inappropriate tech for a lot of the problem spaces it was inflicted upon.