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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
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On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 04:37:40PM -0500, Paul Koning wrote:
>  Bob> There is one issue I think that makes using TCL a good scripting
>  Bob> language for GDB. I'm not sure how important this is however. If
>  Bob> the language is TCL, it'll be very easy to test in GDB's test
>  Bob> suite.
> 
> I would think it's good to stay away from TCL.  I won't say more
> because I don't want to start a language war.  Python can certainly be
> scripted, and it has good support for testsuite type things.

[thanks]

More relevantly, TCL won't make it easier or harder to test in the
testsuite - it can't share files since dejagnu needs expect and
GDB won't be linked to that.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery