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Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:04:12 -0400
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On 30 June 2010 15:54, Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com> wrote:
> A friend on AIM who I showed this quote to suggested XML should drop named
> close tags as a solution: <tag>stuff</>
> "C and Ratfor programmers find BEGIN and END bulky compared to { and }." -
> bwk
>

The </> suggestion has come up 8000 times in as many forums, to no avail.

Supposedly, the excess verbosity makes it more readable/less error-prone.