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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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