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but in html you're mostly reading noise.

To quantify: In your typical web-templates that contain little actual content you'll easily approach 50% noise.

Next time you re-arrange some HTML template, pay attention to the time you spend searching, counting and re-ordering all those closing spans and divs.

That's why people like HAML - it actually saves time.

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