I prefer Rake to NAnt (#1)

While working with Rake and NAnt I've found several reasons I prefer Rake. And, I've received several requests for a pro/con list concerning Rake. So, I'm going to start keeping a list. Here's reason #1.

I prefer escape characters (\") and Q delimiters (%Q) to entity codes (").
For example, executing an external program where the 1st parameter needs to be in quotes but not the second.
Rake (option 1): exec "foo.exe \"some text\" bar"
Rake (option 2)*: exec %Q[foo.exe "some text" bar]
NAnt: <exec program="foo.exe" commandline="&quot;some text&quot; bar"/>

*option 2 provided by Martin