From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8823 invoked by alias); 19 Jul 2018 11:30:40 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 8693 invoked by uid 89); 19 Jul 2018 11:30:28 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=HTo:U*segher, emulate X-HELO: albireo.enyo.de Received: from albireo.enyo.de (HELO albireo.enyo.de) (5.158.152.32) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 19 Jul 2018 11:30:26 +0000 Received: from [172.17.203.2] (helo=deneb.enyo.de) by albireo.enyo.de with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) id 1fg78V-0004cZ-Gm; Thu, 19 Jul 2018 11:30:19 +0000 Received: from fw by deneb.enyo.de with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1fg78V-0007Hu-Cf; Thu, 19 Jul 2018 13:30:19 +0200 From: Florian Weimer To: Segher Boessenkool Cc: Richard Biener , Martin =?iso-8859-15?Q?L?= =?iso-8859-15?Q?i=A8ka?= , GCC Development Subject: Re: [RFC] Adding Python as a possible language and it's usage References: <20180718212839.GW16221@gate.crashing.org> Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2018 12:28:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20180718212839.GW16221@gate.crashing.org> (Segher Boessenkool's message of "Wed, 18 Jul 2018 16:28:39 -0500") Message-ID: <871sbzbgz8.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2018-07/txt/msg00275.txt.bz2 * Segher Boessenkool: > 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'm not an experienced awk programmer, but I don't think plain awk supports arrays of arrays, so there's really no good way to emulate user-defined data types and structure the code.