From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>,
Frysk List <frysk@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: Roadmap beginnings
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 21:54:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080711215413.GB30836@caradoc.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3r6a0cdd5.fsf@fleche.redhat.com>
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 03:36:22PM -0600, Tom Tromey wrote:
> Kinda OT, but: the choice of Python for gdb has more or less the same
> rationale; but there I didn't pick it -- I just picked up Volodya's
> initial code, and I think he followed the outcome of a discussion on
> the gdb list in early 2007.
Yes, that's correct. A wide gamut of programming languages were
suggested (my original prototype used Guile), but we settled on Python
in order to have a single standard language with a substantial user
base.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-11 21:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-11 19:53 Tom Tromey
2008-07-11 20:56 ` Jan Kratochvil
2008-07-11 21:37 ` Tom Tromey
2008-07-11 21:54 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2008-07-11 23:11 ` Kris Van Hees
2008-07-11 21:53 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-07-14 16:34 ` Tom Tromey
2008-07-14 16:45 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-07-14 16:58 ` Phil Muldoon
2008-07-14 17:09 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-07-14 17:19 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2008-07-14 17:34 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-07-14 18:04 ` Tom Tromey
2008-07-14 18:12 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-07-14 18:11 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2008-07-14 17:35 ` Tom Tromey
2008-07-14 18:13 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2008-07-22 20:29 ` Debugger Work (Was: Roadmap beginnings) Tom Tromey
2008-07-11 22:48 ` Roadmap beginnings Phil Muldoon
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