From: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
To: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: guile support in gdb
Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2010 10:19:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3wrptf65e.fsf@unquote.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3y6a9v5aw.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (Tom Tromey's message of "Thu, 07 Oct 2010 19:31:19 -0600")
On Fri 08 Oct 2010 03:31, Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> writes:
>>>>>> "Andy" == Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> writes:
>
> Andy> That's unfortunate. Guile is the GNU extension language, you know.
>
> Yeah, I know.
>
> While the decision to use Python was made before I was active in GDB
> (look in the archives around Jan 2007 for the thread), and while I am
> actually not a fan of Python, I do basically agree with this choice. My
> reason is that I think it is important to have a popular language with a
> wide variety of available libraries. Python is a very easy sell to
> various GDB user communities.
Yeah, understood. Guile wasn't doing all that well either in 2007, so it
wasn't quite the obvious choice, and still has a ways to go before
popularity strikes; but otoh it does allow for other languages,
including javascript. Not that that support is really where I want it to
be yet..
Anyway, perhaps we will revisit this conversation in a couple years.
Happy hacking,
Andy
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http://wingolog.org/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-08 8:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-07 18:39 guile support in gdb Tom Tromey
2010-10-07 20:10 ` Andy Wingo
2010-10-07 21:27 ` Tom Tromey
2010-10-07 22:14 ` Andy Wingo
2010-10-08 1:31 ` Tom Tromey
2010-10-08 8:19 ` Andy Wingo [this message]
2010-10-07 21:35 ` Ludovic Courtès
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