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[–] VitaminF@feddit.org 46 points 1 year ago (2 children)
<fun>
  <name>sum</name>
  <in>
    <int>
      <name>foo</name>
    </int>
    <int>
      <name>bar</name>
      <default_value>
        <int>0</int>
      </default_value>
    </int>
  </in>
  <out>
    <int>
      <calculation>
        <numerical_operation>
          <operator_plus>
            <operand>
              <var>foo</var>
            </operand>
            <operand>
              <var>bar</var>
            </operand>
          </operator_plus>
        </numerical_operation>
      </calculation>
    </int>
  </out>
</fun>
[–] manucode@infosec.pub 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How did you come up with such a ****ingly stupid syntax?!

[–] hedgehog@ttrpg.network 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They probably have experience with Spring

[–] VitaminF@feddit.org 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I imagined what an Elasticsearch query style Python XML syntax would look like.You must share my pain.

[–] luciferofastora@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 year ago

That's grotesque and you have my condolences

[–] pingveno@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Welcome to the world of abusing the shit out of Ant. My first full time job was developing Ant in unholy ways. Tens of thousands of lines of Ant at least, doing significant logic. If-then-else, for loops, math, procedures, date-time math. I stuck it out for a year. It was a year too long.

[–] deathmetal27@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Thankfully we have Gradle now.