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Re: GDB and scripting languages - which

From: Robert Dewar <dewar at adacore dot com>
To: Robert Dewar <dewar at adacore dot com>
Cc: Paul Koning <pkoning at equallogic dot com>, bob_rossi at cox dot net, jimb at codesourcery dot com, gdb at sourceware dot org
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 10:06:59 -0500
Subject: Re: GDB and scripting languages - which
References: <20070108222005.GA27451@nevyn.them.org> <m3k5zw7yex.fsf@codesourcery.com> <20070109202343.GD9844@cox.net> <17828.2852.359000.383405@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <45A65027.2070509@adacore.com>

Robert Dewar wrote:

Paul Koning wrote:

I would think it's good to stay away from TCL.  I won't say more
because I don't want to start a language war.  Python can certainly be
scripted, and it has good support for testsuite type things.


I agree that avoiding TCL is a good idea. In my experience,
TCL has proved hard to maintain.


I would support Python as a choice of scripting language, unlike
many other so-called scripting languages, it is a well designed
and engineered language from a syntactic and semantic point of view.

References:
- GDB and scripting languages - which
  - From: Daniel Jacobowitz
- Re: GDB and scripting languages - which
  - From: Jim Blandy
- Re: GDB and scripting languages - which
  - From: Bob Rossi
- Re: GDB and scripting languages - which
  - From: Paul Koning
- Re: GDB and scripting languages - which
  - From: Robert Dewar

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