From: Jim Blandy <jimb@codesourcery.com>
To: Robert Dewar <dewar@adacore.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: GDB and scripting languages - which
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 21:47:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m38xf0fn7n.fsf@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45D37053.3090709@adacore.com> (Robert Dewar's message of "Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:25:55 -0500")
Robert Dewar <dewar@adacore.com> writes:
> Once again, my position is as follows. The non-technical
> arguments for Python are very strong. It would take VERY
> convincing technical arguments for another language to
> overcome them. In fact Python is a technically strong
> choice as well, so the barrier to finding some better
> choice is pretty high. Lua does not begin to meet that
> challenge. I actually don't think Lua is technically
> superior to Python, but even if it were it would have
> to be oustandingly superior, and that is clearly not
> the case.
I might put more weight here and less there, but this pretty much sums
up my feelings as well.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-14 21:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-08 22:20 Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-01-08 22:39 ` Kip Macy
2007-01-08 22:42 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-01-08 23:03 ` Kip Macy
2007-01-08 22:40 ` Bob Rossi
2007-01-09 20:11 ` Jim Blandy
2007-01-09 20:23 ` Bob Rossi
2007-01-09 21:37 ` Paul Koning
2007-01-09 21:42 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-01-09 21:48 ` Nick Roberts
2007-01-09 21:53 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-01-11 4:31 ` Nick Roberts
2007-01-11 5:06 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-01-13 8:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-01-09 21:55 ` Kip Macy
2007-01-11 14:56 ` Robert Dewar
2007-01-11 15:07 ` Robert Dewar
2007-01-09 20:30 ` Mark Kettenis
2007-01-13 8:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-02-10 12:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-02-10 18:10 ` Pedro Alves
2007-02-10 20:33 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-02-12 17:47 ` Jim Blandy
2007-02-12 21:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-02-12 21:59 ` Robert Dewar
2007-02-12 22:07 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-02-12 22:07 ` Robert Dewar
2007-02-14 5:57 ` Jim Blandy
2007-02-14 15:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-02-14 16:01 ` Paul Koning
2007-02-14 17:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-02-14 16:06 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-02-14 18:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-02-14 18:45 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-02-14 17:37 ` Robert Dewar
2007-02-14 18:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-02-14 18:29 ` Robert Dewar
2007-02-14 18:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-02-14 18:34 ` Robert Dewar
2007-02-14 20:14 ` Jim Blandy
2007-02-14 20:56 ` Robert Dewar
2007-02-14 21:47 ` Jim Blandy [this message]
2007-02-14 21:23 ` Jim Blandy
2007-02-14 21:46 ` Robert Dewar
2007-02-14 20:10 ` Jim Blandy
2007-02-15 1:03 ` Gaius Mulley
2007-02-17 13:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-02-17 14:07 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-02-18 4:11 ` Robert Dewar
2007-02-19 22:17 ` Jim Blandy
2007-01-15 18:29 Kaz Kylheku
2007-01-15 21:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-01-16 0:17 ` Kip Macy
2007-01-17 19:09 ` Jim Blandy
2007-01-16 0:38 Kaz Kylheku
2007-01-17 19:24 ` Jim Blandy
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