Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact ant-user-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list ant-user@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 71430 invoked from network); 18 Oct 2000 14:41:19 -0000 Received: from t3-d-static-237.adsl.directlink.net (HELO sdf.lonestar.org) (root@63.68.131.237) by locus.apache.org with SMTP; 18 Oct 2000 14:41:19 -0000 Received: (from calix@localhost) by sdf.lonestar.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e9I8feb06998; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 08:41:40 GMT Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 03:41:40 -0500 (CDT) From: Saviely To: "Ant-User (E-mail)" Subject: Re: name origin? In-Reply-To: <245A7290F0E0D311BF6E009027E7908B01FCB20A@seagullsw.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Rating: locus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Lee Breisacher wrote: > Just curious: Why is ant called ant? Is it an acronym for something? I read on the Sept ant-dev list archive that no one has a clue. (These are the things I waste my time reading.) But if you think about it, ants along with humans (perhaps more than us) are the best builders of the world. Their communication is nonobvious... they coordinate and scale well. Which explains why having multiple buildfiles is obviously far better than one monolithic, intelligent buildfile. ;) ...and one GUI to bind them all... Saviely