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Sean McGrath <sean.mcgrath@propylon.com> 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@foreignkey.com>
- References:
- XML Sucks
- From: Sean McGrath <sean.mcgrath@propylon.com>
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