On: Why Lisp is Awesome

[lispm]

So you say existing XML-based programming languages were 'written' by non-serious people?

'Water':

    <defmethod test_true source=required="ek_string"> 
     <try <if> source.<execute_string/>.<not/>   
                 <concat "Busted: "source/>.<print/>
               else “OK”
          </if>
    
       >
      <concat "Errored: " source/>.<print/>
     </try>
   </defmethod>

See also XSLT, XL, RuleML, ...

[abstractbill → lispm]

So you say existing XML-based programming languages were 'written' by non-serious people?

Whether or not the people who wrote (sorry, I guess "designed" is the more appropriate word) these languages were serious, I do believe they are a dead-end.