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
