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From: Robert Dewar <dewar@adacore.com>
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Subject: Re: GDB and scripting languages - which
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Robert Dewar wrote:
> Paul Koning wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> I agree that avoiding TCL is a good idea. In my experience,
> TCL has proved hard to maintain.

I would support Python as a choice of scripting language, unlike
many other so-called scripting languages, it is a well designed
and engineered language from a syntactic and semantic point of view.