Ant made the mistake of becoming turing complete which meant all sorts of screwed up code got written in horrible XML. To be fair, ansible allows the same sort

Ant made the mistake of becoming turing complete which meant all sorts of screwed up code got written in horrible XML. To be fair, ansible allows the same sort of behavior with cmd, letting you turn your playbook into one long overly verbose bash script. I have yet to see any code abortions on a par with what I've seen with ant or maven with that, yet, though.