From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6425 invoked by alias); 9 Jan 2007 20:30:41 -0000 Received: (qmail 6413 invoked by uid 22791); 9 Jan 2007 20:30:40 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from sibelius.xs4all.nl (HELO brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl) (82.92.89.47) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 20:30:30 +0000 Received: from brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl (kettenis@localhost.sibelius.xs4all.nl [127.0.0.1]) by brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l09KSvbH021681; Tue, 9 Jan 2007 21:28:57 +0100 (CET) Received: (from kettenis@localhost) by brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id l09KSv3e025115; Tue, 9 Jan 2007 21:28:57 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 20:30:00 -0000 Message-Id: <200701092028.l09KSv3e025115@brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl> From: Mark Kettenis To: jimb@codesourcery.com CC: gdb@sourceware.org In-reply-to: (message from Jim Blandy on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 12:11:50 -0800) Subject: Re: GDB and scripting languages - which References: <20070108222005.GA27451@nevyn.them.org> 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 X-SW-Source: 2007-01/txt/msg00152.txt.bz2 > From: Jim Blandy > 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.