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  1. If you're going to hack XML... by alispguru · · Score: 2 · on 5th Obfuscated Perl Contest Winners

    ... learn Common Lisp. Seriously. XML is really just S-expressions (in drag, with redundant, overblown syntax - see here; (sorry about the pdf)), so why not use a language designed for munging them?

    Perl and XML don't really get along well, primarily because Perl and arbitrarily nested data structures don't really get along well (see here if you want a less biased, but still discouraging opinion).

    Strangely enough, Java and XML aren't getting along as well as one would think, if this article on the JDOM project is any indication. Java also has the shifting sands problem - vendor-controlled standards are evil, no matter who the vendor is.

    Common Lisp has an ANSI standard that hasn't changed since 1995, open-source multi-threaded web servers that you can add native code to on the fly (see AllegroServe or CL-HTTP) and a lot of other good stuff that I don't have time to list here.