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Re: XML Sucks


ant sucks
Sean McGrath <sean.mcgrath@p...> writes:

> Here is the most XML-ish part:
>          http://www.artima.com/intv/plain4.html

[quoting the article, regarding Ant XML buildfiles]

 | Andy Hunt: Yeah, a genuine grammar. I want to be able to type
 | something simple and easy for me. I don't care if it's easy for the
 | tool to parse, that's the tool's problem. I want it to be easy for
 | me to write. And in cases like that, it's really the case of the
 | programmer saying, "Oh look, here's an XML parser. I can just take
 | XML files. That's easier." So one programmer in one context puts a
 | burden on the other 100,000 programmers trying to use it.

Spot on. I certainly remember feeling a similar sentiment when I began
using Ant. I want to write my Ant buildfiles in "Ant", not in "XML".

-- 
Paul Jensen <psj@f...>


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