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Re: GDB and scripting languages - which


> From: Jim Blandy <jimb@codesourcery.com>
> Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 12:11:50 -0800
> 
> 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

This is certainly true in my little corner of the world.  It's fairly
easy to teach astronomers some basic python in two hours or so.

> Maintaining such libraries for multiple extension languages would be
> wasted work, and python is good enough.

Yes, we should spend the limited resources we have wisely.


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