I must disagree with the notion that using Ant and Maven does not introduce a new language to the project. Using Ant does require you to learn a completely new language albeit one which follows the XML conventions. To say it is not new would be like comparing XHTML and XSLT, they are both XML and both are very different. I do not like the Gradle DSL because I find it chaotic and inconsistent, however sprinkling XML tags everywhere does not do much good for readability.
