flare was a programming language thathat never got any love from anyone, and then it died. Moral of the story: Be ugly, or be dumb, but don't be both.
[https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.lang.lisp/ZehOL-B5rIE/gtRRCSPtfGoJ%|%Representing code as XML: the Flare Programming Language] ,comp.lang.lisp ,2001-08-15