From: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
To: jimb@codesourcery.com
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: GDB and scripting languages - which
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 20:30:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200701092028.l09KSv3e025115@brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3k5zw7yex.fsf@codesourcery.com> (message from Jim Blandy on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 12:11:50 -0800)
> From: Jim Blandy <jimb@codesourcery.com>
> Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 12:11:50 -0800
>
> I would prefer that GDB use a single extension language, and that that
> language be Python. Python has more momentum than Guile in almost any
> way one might measure it:
>
> - number of users who are familiar with it
> - body of large programs written in it
> - number of modules available for reuse
> - number of programs embedding it
> - number of books available for learning it
This is certainly true in my little corner of the world. It's fairly
easy to teach astronomers some basic python in two hours or so.
> Maintaining such libraries for multiple extension languages would be
> wasted work, and python is good enough.
Yes, we should spend the limited resources we have wisely.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-09 20:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-08 22:20 Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-01-08 22:39 ` Kip Macy
2007-01-08 22:42 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-01-08 23:03 ` Kip Macy
2007-01-08 22:40 ` Bob Rossi
2007-01-09 20:11 ` Jim Blandy
2007-01-09 20:23 ` Bob Rossi
2007-01-09 21:37 ` Paul Koning
2007-01-09 21:42 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-01-09 21:48 ` Nick Roberts
2007-01-09 21:53 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-01-11 4:31 ` Nick Roberts
2007-01-11 5:06 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-01-13 8:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-01-09 21:55 ` Kip Macy
2007-01-11 14:56 ` Robert Dewar
2007-01-11 15:07 ` Robert Dewar
2007-01-09 20:30 ` Mark Kettenis [this message]
2007-01-13 8:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-02-10 12:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-02-10 18:10 ` Pedro Alves
2007-02-10 20:33 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-02-12 17:47 ` Jim Blandy
2007-02-12 21:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-02-12 21:59 ` Robert Dewar
2007-02-12 22:07 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-02-12 22:07 ` Robert Dewar
2007-02-14 5:57 ` Jim Blandy
2007-02-14 15:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-02-14 16:01 ` Paul Koning
2007-02-14 17:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-02-14 16:06 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-02-14 18:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-02-14 18:45 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-02-14 17:37 ` Robert Dewar
2007-02-14 18:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-02-14 18:29 ` Robert Dewar
2007-02-14 18:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-02-14 18:34 ` Robert Dewar
2007-02-14 20:14 ` Jim Blandy
2007-02-14 20:56 ` Robert Dewar
2007-02-14 21:47 ` Jim Blandy
2007-02-14 21:23 ` Jim Blandy
2007-02-14 21:46 ` Robert Dewar
2007-02-14 20:10 ` Jim Blandy
2007-02-15 1:03 ` Gaius Mulley
2007-02-17 13:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-02-17 14:07 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-02-18 4:11 ` Robert Dewar
2007-02-19 22:17 ` Jim Blandy
2007-01-15 18:29 Kaz Kylheku
2007-01-15 21:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-01-16 0:17 ` Kip Macy
2007-01-17 19:09 ` Jim Blandy
2007-01-16 0:38 Kaz Kylheku
2007-01-17 19:24 ` Jim Blandy
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