XML is crap. Really. There are no excuses. XML is nasty to parse for humans, and it's a disaster to parse even for computers. There's just no reason for that horrible crap to exist.

— Linus Torvalds, Google+ comment reply (2014)

Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20160118114629/https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/X2XVf9Q7MfV

From a 2014 reply in the comments on a Google+ post.

Topics: software design