Just to add a third-party opinion from a neophyte Ant user experienced
in make and other build systems:
I appreciated the declarative, as opposed to procedural, nature of Ant.
The procedural nature of traditional build tools (scripts, make, etc.)
is the very reason they become so fragile with complex projects. XML is
verbose, but it works well for a declarative definition. Sure, there is
a need for some procedural steps, but I feel that more would be lost
than gained were a procedural language used for the overall structure.
It would nice if there were a standard, supported, widely-used
declarative language without all of the verbosity of XML (I have no
problem with the traditional "keyword {...}" syntax); but, alas, there
isn't.
--Wayne
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