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Re:Symbian Source Code by seclorum_wien on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @03:06PM (#31496241)
I cringe at the places I've used XML for things like declarative programming, its just too obnoxious to think about.

However, as someone who is currently pushing bytecode on the wire in place of such things, because reasons, I can only tell you the madness is just a toolchain away.

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Re:Symbian Source Code by TedDoesntTalk on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @05:44PM (#31497853)
The example he gives may just be a config file. XML was very popular for holding configuration, replacing the ancient property name/value pair system.
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