Make sense to me. All I had to go by was the documentation I read.
Sam Ruby/Raleigh/IBM wrote: > > Ken Wood wrote: > > > > It was designed to be a JAVA program to build > > java. It was designed to be extended using > > java because that was the original CONCEPT > > Have you talked to the original author? I have. > > The original concept was language independent. The implementation and the > first set of tasks were written in Java because that's what James Duncan > Davidson needed at the time. > > James, Stefano, myself or the others at the time would have no objections > to Ant being extended by COBOL or LISP or whatever. > > What everybody didn't want was for the Ant language itself (by this, I mean > the XML grammar) to become yet another programming language. > > - Sam Ruby
