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Discussion on: Which mainstream programming language has the ugliest syntax?

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XSLT if it counts as mainstream (maybe not now).

For the uninitiated it is a way to program using XML alone. Typically it is used to convert from one XML document into another XML document using an even bigger third XML document known as a "stylesheet". Unsurprisingly this process typically requires a heap-full of memory and copious amounts CPU.

I might be doing it a disservice but I found it hard to comprehend, hard to write and transforms non trivial to debug.