the complaint I recall is that people don't like the way they nest, but I've had to write regex for xml and lisp, and I must say the lisp is much more pleasant.

the complaint I recall is that people don't like the way they nest, but I've had to write regex for xml and lisp, and I must say the lisp is much more pleasant. Perhaps the only difference on the post-parsing end is that in xml, there is a special place to nest children, that's really the only benefit I can think of even though you have to go through more trouble.