Date: 09/27/06 (Java Web)    Keywords: programming, xml

Allen Holub (Author of Compiler Design in C and famous OO Guru) said: “XML is perhaps the worst programming language ever conceived. I’m not talking about XML as a data-description language, which was its original design. I’m talking about perverting XML for programming applications. It’s inappropriate to use XML as a scripting language (e.g., ANT), [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/say-no-to-xml-as-programming-language/