Re: GDB and scripting languages - which

Bob Rossi
2007-01-09T20:23:54Z

On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 12:11:50PM -0800, Jim Blandy wrote:
>
> 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

There is one issue I think that makes using TCL a good scripting
language for GDB. I'm not sure how important this is however. If the
language is TCL, it'll be very easy to test in GDB's test suite.

Bob Rossi