On Fri 08 Oct 2010 03:31, Tom Tromey <tro...@redhat.com> writes: >>>>>> "Andy" == Andy Wingo <wi...@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 -- http://wingolog.org/
