Yes, in my career I've seen a OO extension of C written in XML that required a custom eclipse plugin to write. A language where you defined a function like: function foo() while (...) ... end while; if (...) ... end if; end foo, because those guys loved the C++ style of putting comments at the end of control structures. Finally there was the language you had to write in excel that was exported to CSV that in turn was used to generate XML that was parsed before compile time to generate java code with System.out.println and was finally loaded at runtime through some dynamic loading. I never had any respect for these people as engineers, I was very KrugerDunnings early on in my career but I don't think I was to entirely to blame for always knowing better.
One time, someone did something in a dumb way that other people sometimes do in a good way. That said, I decided that the something someone can do is dumb, because I saw it done in a dumb way. Thank you for coming to my Ted Ted Talk.
