On 7/19/18, Jeff Law <l...@redhat.com> wrote: > 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 >
gawk comes with a debugger, too: https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/Debugger.html
