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." - Meaning and context.">
Torvalds, Linus (2014-03-06), Linus Torvalds - Google+ (As a reply in the comments section), retrieved: 2025-06-02

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

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "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." in the context of "Torvalds, Linus (2014-03-06), Linus Torvalds - Google+ (As a reply in the comments section), retrieved: 2025-06-02" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

Source: Wikiquote: "Linus Torvalds" (Quotes, 2010s, 2014) The 'What it means' explanation text was generated by Google Gemini Flash (accessed January 18, 2026). https://gemini.google.com/app
Linus Torvalds

About Linus Torvalds

Linus Benedict Torvalds (born 28 December 1969) is a Finnish-American computer programmer, best known as the creator of the Linux kernel.