>But then again, it's much easier to criticize with hindsight than to design a system that becomes popular. Indeed - ant came about when XML was popular for fa

>But then again, it's much easier to criticize with hindsight than to design a system that becomes popular. Indeed - ant came about when XML was popular for far more things then it should have been used for, and java wouldn't make a very good declarative build language (which is what ant was targeting).