From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4120 invoked by alias); 14 Feb 2007 21:23:16 -0000 Received: (qmail 4108 invoked by uid 22791); 14 Feb 2007 21:23:15 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.codesourcery.com (HELO mail.codesourcery.com) (65.74.133.4) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 21:23:10 +0000 Received: (qmail 22660 invoked from network); 14 Feb 2007 21:23:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost) (jimb@127.0.0.2) by mail.codesourcery.com with ESMTPA; 14 Feb 2007 21:23:08 -0000 To: Robert Dewar Cc: Eli Zaretskii , gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: GDB and scripting languages - which References: <20070108222005.GA27451@nevyn.them.org> <20070210203307.GA27502@nevyn.them.org> <45D33263.2080403@adacore.com> <45D34E2E.7070701@adacore.com> <45D37053.3090709@adacore.com> From: Jim Blandy Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 21:47:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <45D37053.3090709@adacore.com> (Robert Dewar's message of "Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:25:55 -0500") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-02/txt/msg00149.txt.bz2 Robert Dewar 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.