From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23725 invoked by alias); 9 Jan 2007 02:01:21 -0000 Received: (qmail 23716 invoked by uid 22791); 9 Jan 2007 02:01:19 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from viper.snap.net.nz (HELO viper.snap.net.nz) (202.37.101.8) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 02:01:14 +0000 Received: from kahikatea.snap.net.nz (p202-124-120-214.snap.net.nz [202.124.120.214]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 295C13D830B for ; Tue, 9 Jan 2007 15:01:10 +1300 (NZDT) Received: by kahikatea.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 500) id 8D0404F6E2; Tue, 9 Jan 2007 15:01:08 +1300 (NZDT) From: Nick Roberts MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Message-ID: <17826.63330.884078.21609@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 02:01:00 -0000 To: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: annota1.exp testsuite failures X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.0.92.6 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; 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9 Jan 2007 03:32:23 -0000 Received: (qmail 11280 invoked by uid 22791); 9 Jan 2007 03:32:23 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nile.gnat.com (HELO nile.gnat.com) (205.232.38.5) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 03:32:16 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-nile.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12F8148CCBD for ; Mon, 8 Jan 2007 22:32:14 -0500 (EST) Received: from nile.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (nile.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 24542-01-3 for ; Mon, 8 Jan 2007 22:32:13 -0500 (EST) Received: from takamaka.act-europe.fr (AStDenis-105-1-92-126.w80-8.abo.wanadoo.fr [80.8.221.126]) by nile.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4366648CC03 for ; Mon, 8 Jan 2007 22:32:13 -0500 (EST) Received: by takamaka.act-europe.fr (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5299034C099; Tue, 9 Jan 2007 07:33:02 +0400 (RET) Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 03:32:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: GDB and scripting languages - which Message-ID: <20070109033302.GF23012@adacore.com> References: <20070108222005.GA27451@nevyn.them.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070108222005.GA27451@nevyn.them.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org Delivered-To: mailing list gdb@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-01/txt/msg00133.txt.bz2 Content-length: 1040 Thanks, Daniel, for undertaking this. In my opinion, the gain in supporting more than one scripting language is not that high. In my own experience, I often produce new work by relying on previous work. We look at how it's done, consult a few scripts in the process, search the internet when we don't know how to do something, and then eventually manage to come up with something. This is probably how to achieve the most idiomatic form of work, but using a widely used language helps a lot. Anway, that's how I approached dejagnu and TCL: Although I've never really wanted to become a TCL expert, it did not take very long until I knew enough to follow the coding guidelines and get by. I would therefore recommend that we support only one language. Even though I know some basics of LISP and yet no Python at all, I tend to favor python over guile. Python is now well known and has a reputation of being well designed. This is the choice that the GPS (the AdaCore IDE) team has made, and they have been very happy with it. -- Joel