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Seems that LtU (and lots of other people, for that matter) are all excited about Laszlo - and XML based programming language. Here's what "Hello World" looks like:

<canvas>     <text>Hello World!</text> </canvas>

Just what we need in the world - more angle braces. This makes Cobol look positively spartan in terms of what you have to type. Thanks, but no thanks...