Re: [RFC] Adding Python as a possible language and it's usage

[Jeff Law]

On 07/18/2018 03:28 PM, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 11:51:36AM +0200, Richard Biener wrote:
>> We already conditionally require Perl for building for some targets so I 
>> wonder
>> if using perl would be better ...
> 
> At least perl is GPL (Python is not).
> 
> 
> What would the advantage of using Python be?  I haven't heard any yet.
> Awk may be a bit clunky but at least it is easily readable for anyone.
I've found python *far* easier to read than awk.  And you can actually
run a debugger on your python code to see what it's doing.
Jeff