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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.


  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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