From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18107 invoked by alias); 29 Jan 2006 04:27:45 -0000 Received: (qmail 18090 invoked by uid 22791); 29 Jan 2006 04:27:44 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (HELO zproxy.gmail.com) (64.233.162.192) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Sun, 29 Jan 2006 04:27:44 +0000 Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id x3so909179nzd for ; Sat, 28 Jan 2006 20:27:42 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.36.158.12 with SMTP id g12mr3843415nze; Sat, 28 Jan 2006 20:27:42 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.37.2.63 with HTTP; Sat, 28 Jan 2006 20:27:42 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <8f2776cb0601282027k53f2ae04je61b4208250348f9@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 06:18:00 -0000 From: Jim Blandy To: Paul Schlie Subject: Re: Using XML in GDB? Cc: gdb@sourceware.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-01/txt/msg00322.txt.bz2 On 1/28/06, Paul Schlie wrote: > > From: Jim Blandy > > I think if you're going to have structured data, something like > > XML or ASN.1 is the way to go. (I'd actually prefer to say "lisp > > s-expressions", but then nobody would speak to me any more. :) ) > > - Actually I'd have thought s-expression structured data would be a > vastly superior choice relative either perverted (IMHO) alternative. S-expressions are great if you've already got a lisp interpreter around. If GDB had Guile integrated into it, making all this work would be so easy we'd barely bother to have a conversation about it.=20 But our audience is more comfortable with Python, Ruby, and Perl; I think a syntax that is well-supported by those tools is a better choice. It was a toss-off joke; I didn't mean to distract attention from Daniel's proposal. We can have a GDB extension language discussion on a separate thread, if people are interested.