From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>
Date: 2006-07-23T02:18:18+09:00
Subject: Re: XML2RB - Executing XML

"Erik Veenstra" <erikveen@gmail.com> writes:

> Rake? Ruby? It's not that hard to reimplement Ants
> functionality in Ruby. It's usually a good idea to build a DSL
> on top of a GPL, so all common stuff in a language (conditions
> and loops) is readily available.
>
> Don't start from scratch if you're about to implement a DSL.
> You'll either have to reinvent a lot of wheels, or you just
> forget about the wheels and start driving the car without them.
>
> Ant is built from scratch. They skipped the wheels.

...but that's still better than building it on top of Java.  :-P

> gegroet,
> Erik V. - http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/
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