GDB and scripting languages - which

[Jim Blandy]

Robert Dewar <dewar@adacore.com> writes:
> Once again, my position is as follows. The non-technical
> arguments for Python are very strong. It would take VERY
> convincing technical arguments for another language to
> overcome them. In fact Python is a technically strong
> choice as well, so the barrier to finding some better
> choice is pretty high. Lua does not begin to meet that
> challenge. I actually don't think Lua is technically
> superior to Python, but even if it were it would have
> to be oustandingly superior, and that is clearly not
> the case.

I might put more weight here and less there, but this pretty much sums
up my feelings as well.